Dakota Johnson Quotes
I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn't want Cogsworth to become Disney's gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.
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Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.
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I do think it's getting better, but I have noticed that Asians are not well represented in awards shows, and not a ton of Asian faces on the big screen either. Perhaps some of the young Asian actors who are on TV series now will be seen in upcoming movies in the near future - Jamie Chung, Constance Wu, Suzy Nakamura, to name a few. Fingers crossed.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
