Annalee Newitz Quotes

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

I definitely used to dream of sitting in the movie theatre watching the 'Star Wars' credits come up knowing I was part of one of those films.

It's archaic to think about films as a solo lead or multi-starrer.

I read a magazine called 'Cinefantastique' that had just come out with a making of 'Star Wars' issue. They had some very long and detailed interviews with a whole bunch of people at ILM. I think I memorized that whole magazine.

In terms of the film itself, there was nothing much very new about 'Star Wars.' 'Star Wars' was a trailblazer for the kind of monumentalist pastiche which has become standard in a homogeneous Hollywood blockbuster culture that, perhaps more than any other film, 'Star Wars' played a role in inventing.

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are men at the top of their game, and Jackson especially is going to change the nature of film-making.

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

Suddenly, all the giant Hollywood franchises are being driven by alternative filmmakers.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

At the time that George Lucas made the first 'Star Wars,' space was always presented as pristine. And he wanted to show that they may be fabulous vehicles, but they've been driven some miles. And, without anyone thinking about it or thinking that was going to help make it a pop hit, everybody believed in that world, because it looked inhabited.