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" Comic Con has become a very relevant venue for all films. "
Jon Favreau
Comic
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" Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people. "
Jon Favreau
Fame
Know
I Am
" When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality. "
Jon Favreau
Amazing
Reality
Me
" I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good. "
Jon Favreau
Good
Work
Think
" For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me. "
Jon Favreau
Fun
People
Freedom
" For something to be profitable doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing in the world for the director. You judge a movie by different standards - I've worked on comedies, and now I've worked on superhero movies, and the reviews are almost parenthetical in both of those genres. "
Jon Favreau
Judge
Best
World
" There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly. "
Jon Favreau
Free
Lunch
Money
" I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there. "
Jon Favreau
Responsibility
Much
Taking
" Online theft has changed the business model of filmmaking because the DVD market is very soft. So, more ambitious, compelling, character-driven narrative of a certain budget level isn't really a viable business model in the eyes of the studios right now. "
Jon Favreau
Now
Filmmaking
Eyes
" Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. "
Jon Favreau
Hit
Splash
Nothing
" I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it. "
Jon Favreau
You
Character
Feeling
" I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby. "
Jon Favreau
Line
Too
Chef
" I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid. "
Jon Favreau
Me
You
Work
" 'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good. "
Jon Favreau
End
People
Path
" Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to. "
Jon Favreau
Money
Create
Buildings
" I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. "
Jon Favreau
Trying
Performance
Best
" I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. "
Jon Favreau
People
Guilt
Think
" You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director. "
Jon Favreau
Food
Cooking
Fun
" I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told. "
Jon Favreau
Patience
Lot
Movies
" People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and there's bad little ones. The bad big ones have to make their money back, so they'll push them down your throat, but the little ones just disappear if they're bad. "
Jon Favreau
True
Money
Movies
" I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre. "
Jon Favreau
Comedy
Cool
I Am
" Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down. "
Jon Favreau
Food
Restaurant
Power
" You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater. "
Jon Favreau
Rock And Roll
Song
People
" I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry. "
Jon Favreau
Pizza
Service
Places
" Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next. "
Jon Favreau
Learn
Live
Not Knowing
" Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself. "
Jon Favreau
End
Look
Crazy
" I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater. "
Jon Favreau
Work
You
Appreciate
" I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time. "
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Who
Unknown
Time
" When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things. "
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People
Green
" You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day. "
Jon Favreau
Enough
Find
Over
" I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. "
Jon Favreau
Children
Parents
Nature