Joshua Leonard Quotes
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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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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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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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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
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Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.
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I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
