Sean Durkin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm a believer in film school.
-- Sean Durkin

#School #Film #Believer
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
-- Sean Durkin

#Long #Way #Subtle
When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.
-- Sean Durkin

#Believe #Actors #Ability
When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.
-- Sean Durkin

#Kids #People #Large Groups
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
-- Sean Durkin

#People #Cult
When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
-- Sean Durkin

#Writing #Matter #Ends
You can't write something to please someone.
-- Sean Durkin

#Writing #Please
You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.
-- Sean Durkin

#People #Months #Rowdy
A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
-- Sean Durkin

#Actors #Film #Bigs
I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.
-- Sean Durkin

#Morning #Prayer #School
In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.
-- Sean Durkin

#Cutting #Creating #Editing
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
-- Sean Durkin

#Sports #Team #People
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
-- Sean Durkin

#Religious #Prayer #Fall
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.
-- Sean Durkin

#Writing #Ongoing #Process
When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.
-- Sean Durkin

#Kids #Littles #Scared
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
-- Sean Durkin

#Soccer #Player #Coaches
Filmmaking is a real craft.
-- Sean Durkin

#Real #Crafts #Filmmaking
I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.
-- Sean Durkin

#Trying #Actors #Feels
I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
-- Sean Durkin

#Firsts #Anticipation #Horror
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
-- Sean Durkin

#Photography #Kids #Writing
I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
-- Sean Durkin

#Soccer #Player #Goal
I went to my first college to play soccer.
-- Sean Durkin

#Soccer #College #Play
I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.
-- Sean Durkin

#Fats
I would like to do a sports movie.
-- Sean Durkin

#Sports #Sports Movie
I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.
-- Sean Durkin

#Book #Adapting
Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.
-- Sean Durkin

#People #Needs #Firsts

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