Eva Mendes Quotes
What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl."
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
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I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations movie together and we were complaining about what a mediocre film experience it was. DeNiro showed up on set and all of a sudden the director got better, the director of photography got better - everybody got more interested and excited. DeNiro isn't waiting for other people to create the environment that he wants, he brings it along with him.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
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What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl."
