Dito Montiel Quotes
I'm such a fan of actors and also enjoy watching them work so that I can help their acting in any way I can. Sometimes it walks a tricky line because you want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me. I'm a big Woody Allen and Spike Lee fan, and I find their films to be very honest.Dito Montiel
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I retire every time I'm done with a movie. Then I go back. You know, I enjoy sleep. But I love to work; it's fun for me. As long as it continues to be fun, and I'm tolerated by the people around me, I will do it.
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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.
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Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.
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Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
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With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
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I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.
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I'm such a fan of actors and also enjoy watching them work so that I can help their acting in any way I can. Sometimes it walks a tricky line because you want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me. I'm a big Woody Allen and Spike Lee fan, and I find their films to be very honest.
Dito Montiel
