[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad.… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
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![“[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.” quote by Erykah Badu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/erykah-badu-1649_bad-luck_the-land-is-a-film-that-just-happens-to_1853654.jpg)
![“In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between…” quote by Johnny Depp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/johnny-depp-658_blather_in-terms-of-it-being-a-first-screenplay_1024129.jpg)
![“There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.” quote by Peter Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/peter-jackson-1771_amount_there-s-no-real-rules-about-what-you-do_2104258.jpg)
![“We did two films [Kung Fu Panda], because the first two films were so embraced by the Chinese audiences we wanted to make something we could push further and since this is a co-production, it seemed like the perfect time to create something that felt native to Chinese audiences.” quote by Jennifer Yuh Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ed/jennifer-yuh-nelson-9435_audience_we-did-two-films-kung-fu-panda-because-t_1507046.jpg)
![“The first person I ever described the film [The Neon Demon] to was Christina Hendricks [who has a cameo in the movie]. We were having dinner in LA and she asked me what I wanted to do next and I said, "I want to do a horror movie." And she goes, "What's it going to be about?" And I said, "A lot of…” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/058/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_blood_the-first-person-i-ever-described-the-fi_864485.jpg)
