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 think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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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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When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.
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You either are or you're not.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
