Johnny Depp Quotes
I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
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I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.
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It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.
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I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.
