21 Robert Zemeckis Quotes for You to Enjoy

Robert Zemeckis

American Director

Born: May 14, 1952

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Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation. Robert Zemeckis

Isolation Well Human Human Beings Beings Function

Good directing is good writing and good casting. Robert Zemeckis

Good Writing Directing Casting Good Writing

It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups. Robert Zemeckis

Love You Visual About Having Unrealistic Performer Most Doing Effect Close-Up Shoot Place Shots Actor Thing

You can't legislate sobriety. Robert Zemeckis

You Legislate Sobriety

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit. Robert Zemeckis

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We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves. Robert Zemeckis

Alone Ourselves Responsible Ultimately

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile. Robert Zemeckis

Good Kind Worthwhile Only Could Never Like Hitchcock Movie Anything

You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you. Robert Zemeckis

Art You Nothing Just Stop Your

I'm very concerned that we don't make movies that are original anymore. Robert Zemeckis

Concerned Make Very Anymore Movies Original

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life. Robert Zemeckis

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I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess. Robert Zemeckis

Good Day Business End Of The Day Try Care Long Go Away Nothing Think Guess Good Movies Only Allow Make Making Audiences Go End Just The Only Thing Movies Them Us Keep Away Thing Filmmakers

We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance. Robert Zemeckis

You People Censorship Circumstance System See Tacit Only Ratings Directly Like Know Make Sort Tied Box Box Office Go Office Any Going Movie Which Certain Amount

I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens. Robert Zemeckis

Happy Walk Made Complaints About Very Happens

From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money. Robert Zemeckis

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I'm really tired of making these huge, over-$100 million movies where they literally mean life and death for a studio. It's really rough making these expensive movies. Everyone is hysterical. Robert Zemeckis

Life Death Tired Everyone Life And Death Studio Hysterical Making Huge Expensive Where Literally Movies Mean Really Rough Million

I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds. Robert Zemeckis

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Favorite movie lists are impossible for me to do. Robert Zemeckis

Me Impossible Favorite Favorite Movie Lists Movie

I'm in a constant conflict about having to make a movie for the big and the small screen at the same time, stylistically. So I just basically make it for the large screen. Robert Zemeckis

Time Conflict Big Constant About Having Small Make Stylistically Same Just Same Time Screen Movie Large Basically

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