In their own words
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Backshift the tenses.
Exercise 34. Report the following actual statements of the great movie directors and
Characters actually said.
Exercise 32. Look at these statements in reported speech and write down what the
1. She said she liked him.
2. She said she was seeing him that evening.
3. She said she had never felt like that before.
4. He said he had enjoyed meeting her that night.
5. He said he would ring her the next day.
Exercise 33. Match the sentences in box A to their reported equivalents in box B.
A
| She said: a) “I'll always think about you.” b) “I've always thought about you” c) “I'm always thinking about you.” d) “I always think about you.” e) “I always thought about you.” f) “I was always thinking about you.” |
B
| She said … 1 she had always thought about him. 2 she had always been thinking about him. 3 she always thought about him. 4 she would always think about him. 5 she was always thinking about him. |
1. “Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing is: photograph the people's eyes.” (John Ford)
2. 
“Actors can be a terrible bore on the set, though I enjoy having dinner with them.” (Sir David Lean)
3. “Less isn't more. More is more.” (James Cameron)
4. “We do pander to the audience. But the audience we think about is us.” (The Coen Bros.)
5. “We had access to too much money…and little by little we went insane.” (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. “When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, “No, I went to films.” (Quentin Tarantino)
7. 
“I'm a filmmaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.” (Sir Ridley Scott)
8. “I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy, and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say…Well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.” (Martin Scorsese)
9. “If you have a story that is very commercial and simple, you have to find the art. You have to take the other elements of the film, and make them as good as possible, and doing that will uplift the film.” (Steven Allan Spielberg)
10. 
“Telling me to take a vacation from filmmaking is like telling a child to take a vacation from playing.” (Stanley Kubrick)
11. “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it by not dying.” (Woody Allen)
12. “In films painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.” (Akira Kurosawa)
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