Russell Mulcahy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.
-- Russell Mulcahy

#School #Film
I did "Highlander", which was just an extraordinary wonderful experience. I'm really proud of "Highlander". And they keep trying to re-make it...good luck to them. I do not want to be involved. But, yeah, I'm really proud of that one.
-- Russell Mulcahy

#Good Luck #Trying #Proud
I've always remembered this quote from a book that I read as a kid. It was something along the lines of "What's scary is not necessarily what goes bump in the night, but that which whispers at midday." And I've always held that. The day can just be as scary as night.
-- Russell Mulcahy

#Book #Kids #Night
I wanted to make mini features. And there was a wonderful creative freedom; not necessarily copying the lyrics, but just trying to create emotion. Like the songs, you know? Just like how the song creates an emotion, I wanted the video to create an emotion.
-- Russell Mulcahy

#Song #Creative #Trying
We wanted to not necessarily tell the story of the video or the song, but create an ambience. And I think now, I think that's gone now. There's nothing wrong with that. But I think we were all trying to make mini feature films. I remember when we were making the Duran videos, I would crop the top and bottom of the screen with black. So that it looked more like cinema.
-- Russell Mulcahy

#Song #Thinking #Black

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Indian film awards lack credibility.
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

Russell Mulcahy famous quotes

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