The big thing that I wanted to do was touch on the very start of rock and roll, I loved this moment in rockabilly music. I loved the idea of people making music because they loved music and not because they saw the video or how to market themselves. A very big point for me in this movie is that John didn't arrive at Sun as the man in black. He didn't already know his marketing angle. He didn't have it worked out. He was just trying to be heard and however that would work or not work was fine, but he just needed to be heard. What was magic to me about that moment in time was that it was a moment before the term 'rock and roll star' existed.
More Quotes from James Mangold:
There was a point when they got into enough of a groove that when they played for the extras in Memphis we felt the love,James Mangold
John was not just a singer, but a songwriter, ... He was always riding this river of shadows in his writing. He was singing about a kind of pain everyone lives through.
James Mangold
I had the advantage of making a movie about a man who was an artist himself, and an artist of the shadows, in the sense that he understood life's lonelinesses and life's mistakes, and that people make them. In that sense, he wasn't interested in hiding them.
James Mangold
I didn't want to make a movie about what we already know.
James Mangold
They were each an antidote for the other. John had a hole in his heart... and June was an antidote... John was a real ambassador for her to the edge or away from a safe place as part of the first family of country music. It's the most wonderful set of opposites you could ever encounter.
James Mangold
All you have to do is listen over and over and over again to any one of his songs. Even when they first started appearing in the early to middle '50s, the lyrics are incredibly dark. Everyone else is singing about getting girls and being happy, and he's singing about, 'I go out on a party and look for a little fun, but I find a darkened corner, because I still miss someone.' That's a dark lyric for a pop song.
James Mangold
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Idea Quotes, Man Quotes, Movies Quotes, Music Quotes, People Quotes, Time Quotes, Work & Career QuotesBased on Keywords: rockabilly
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
W. Eugene Smith
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim Rohn
It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
Birch Bayh