You cannot just be the feature act, not that that’s a bad thing, because that’s a good thing, especially nowadays. But as an artist, you want to express yourself and you want to know what you want to express.
I don’t do ‘political correctness,’ whatever that means. I write the stories I want to write, featuring the characters I want to feature. I don’t touch demographic bases to appease this group or that. I write what I want. Full stop.
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That’s what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was ‘You’re a Big Boy Now.’
In some ways, ‘The Little Mermaid’ was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
Like, I always knew I wanted a Kanye West feature and a Jay-Z feature. I knew that starting in the game when it wasn’t even realistic to happen. I already knew who I wanted to do records with.
Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.
A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television – by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame – has always called my name. And after seeing ‘True Detective,’ can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.
I have a small part as an Ace Rental Car guy in a regular feature called ‘Ca$h.’
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
The first writer I developed a script with was John Hughes, and that was ‘Mr. Mom.’ That was my first feature film.
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I’m really chuffed about.
It’s tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.
One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.
I’m a movie buff. My mom would take me to a double feature. We’d come out, go have Chinese food, and then go back into another cinema and see another double feature. I feel I’m a child of the movies.
It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
My blue eyes are my best feature.
They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in ‘those old people.’ And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it’s become a trend.
I didn’t get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they’d given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
I went from a sitcom to a hospital drama, feature films. I’ve kind of been living the actor’s dream. I’m not associated with one role or one medium. You’re lucky if you’re associated with one hit show.
My legs are actually my favorite feature.
Music is a big part of the director’s life; Ms. Coppola’s previous feature, a screen adaptation of ‘The Virgin Suicides,’ was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative.
I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.
I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
I never try and send messages through my feature films; it’s always naturally woven in and comes through on its own, as that’s the way I think about society.
Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother’s singing.
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension – which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article as well.
A majority of women’s magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature.
‘TTM’ started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I’d rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.
With every new social network, smartphone feature, and digital diversion, innovation-driven consumer companies must constantly redefine their categories and, in some cases, redefine themselves to ensure they remain both relevant and differentiated in the minds of consumers.
In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn in a script and never be heard from again.
I think the most insidious version of crunch is when you say, ‘Hey, I’m working for this triple-A video game; I personally want it to be as good as possible, so I’m going to stay tonight until 10 P.M. to finish this feature.’
Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.
I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on ‘Breaking Bad,’ or actually any of the people on ‘Breaking Bad.’ I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point.
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it’s like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
My biggest influence growing up was Avicii, who put me onto creating the sorts of melodies that feature throughout my songs today.
The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea that debt is wrong and should be punished is a feature of a moral economy.
For my first feature film, I just wanted to write something that people can relate to, something that was real. I really wanted it to hit home with people.
When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me – I had two brothers – and we used to go in the early ’80s and check out these grindhouse movies – a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.
I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life’s history is a constant domination by bacteria.
That’s the really fun thing about writing for series versus just doing a pilot or even doing a feature: you get to live with your actors, and as you learn their voices and they learn your dialog, you’re kind of building the characters together.
My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side.
This is a Disney animated feature; it’s eternal, it’s history. What’s there to think about’
If you’re writing a screenplay for a feature, you don’t have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples’ lives and their struggles.
Nothing scales quite the way a sci-fi feature does, I mean, you can always add more visual effects; you can spend a lot of money on the visual fidelity alone.
The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.
I’m sure the audiences will connect with ‘Yeh Hai Aashiqui,’ as it will feature stories inspired from real life.
This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn’t know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn’t want to know that it is doing it.
My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
