Romany Malco (Romany Romanic Malco Jr.) Quotes
I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.
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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 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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Film is anti-language.
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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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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.
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I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
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Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
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I never really expected to be controversial.
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I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.
