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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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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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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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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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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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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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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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 make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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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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I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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You have to stop thinking logically to argue that the universe came into being by itself, out of nothing.
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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.
