Hiroyuki Sanada Quotes
I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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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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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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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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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
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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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Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.
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I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
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Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.
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I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
