Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.

Harry Dean Stanton

• Screen
• Competence
• Sense of menace

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• I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.

  

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• While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

  

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• Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

  

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• I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

  

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• I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Screen
  • Competence
  • Sense of menace