Shane Carruth Quotes
I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.
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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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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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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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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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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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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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Since I'm on a tour bus, sometimes it's really hard for me to wash my face, so I always make sure I have those Neutrogena Make-up Remover Cleansing Towelettes. No matter what and no matter how long the days are, I always have to wash with those before bed and when I wake up.
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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My girl was an outback type who could cope. She was content to sleep on the ground, cook on the open fire, nurse her children in the shade of a bough shelter, eat rabbits, carry water and wash her clothes in a four-gallon tin.
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It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
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The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.
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I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.
