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.
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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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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
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That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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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.
