Steven Shainberg Quotes
Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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Film has to describe and show.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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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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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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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've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.
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It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.
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I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!
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Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
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I had fresh confirmation that acting contrary to present outward interest, from a motive of Divine love and in regard to truth and righteousness, and thereby incurring the resentments of people, opens the way to a treasure better than silver, and to a friendship exceeding the friendship of men.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.
