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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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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The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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In Michigan, in the mid-'80s, the unemployment rate goes way up because a lot of factories shut down. And then, the mid-2000s, to pick a date, the unemployment rate in Michigan isn't that much higher than in the rest of the country. But the main way that happened is people moved.
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Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.
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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.
