43 Whit Stillman Quotes for You to Enjoy

Whit Stillman

American Director

Born: Jan 25, 1952

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The cinema I particularly love is the cinema of the golden age of the studios in the 1930s. One of the really nice things about it was the way teams of actors and directors and crew people worked together again and again. Whit Stillman

My theory in the '90s was that I didn't want to take a Jane Austen book I loved and reduce it to a 90-minute movie. The Emma Thompson-Ang Lee 'Sense and Sensibility' was beautiful, but other ones, I didn't think justice was being done. It's not a slam dunk to adapt these books. Whit Stillman

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I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything. Whit Stillman

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You can be an American or an Englishman or Canadian and be a Parisian. It's a very admirable culture, and people want to identify with it. Whit Stillman

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I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days. Whit Stillman

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There are bad preppies and bad priests and bad humanitarians. Any group can have its bad apple. Whit Stillman

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The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself. Whit Stillman

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The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in. Whit Stillman

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If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another. Whit Stillman

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I think one thing that makes me delay projects more than other people is, I see this silver lining in a turn-down. Maybe if I just wrote a script and then pounded my head against all the doors, I would be shooting more films. Whit Stillman

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One of the reasons it's important to make a new project is it always seems to improve the reputations of the previous one. Whatever you did before is better than what you've just done, apparently. But I've had to follow the first rule of journalism: Never read the comments. Whit Stillman

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The 'Damsels' crew was low-budget, young people who were doing their first thing almost. A lot of it. It felt like Pied Piper or Rumpelstiltskin or whatever: it was me and people thirty years younger or more. But it was great; it was really fun. Whit Stillman

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