Josh Trank (Joshua Benjamin Trank) Quotes
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'
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I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.
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BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
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There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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For me, a wake-up playlist completely depends on what mood I'm in. If I need to get into action pretty quick, it will be between Beyonce and Miles Davis. I'm a massive Beyonce fan, and all of her anthems will do it for me. And Miles Davis, because I grew up hearing his music because my dad played it a lot, so that will always be special to me.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life. I have watched constantly that in our movie work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether it deals with fable or with stories of living action.
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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
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I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.
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Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.
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Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
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An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
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My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
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Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.
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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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I'm a big, big movie fan; really, I've seen everything. I really mean that, too.
