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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I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.
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Sometimes, when I have to learn the lines in German and French, it's that much more difficult because it doesn't just sink in automatically, organically. I have to memorize it. It's a tricky thing, as well, as when you improvise, sometimes you want to say something but you don't know how to put it. It's more difficult than in your mother tongue. It's a challenge but, at the age of fifteen, I put myself up for it and I was aware that it would be an obstacle and many times.
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I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some Hollywood studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.
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I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
