James Cromwell Quotes
First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.
Quotes to Explore
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
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Every challenge that comes up is just a problem that needs a solution.
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.
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One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections.
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First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.
