Hal Hartley Quotes
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Everybody is a teenage idol.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Do we want a multicultural society, following the model of the English-speaking world, where fundamental Islam is progressing and we see major religious claims, or do we want an independent nation, with people able to control their own destiny, or do we accept to be a region managed by the technocrats of the European Union?
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Just simple things - I like black and white, monochrome; I like suits.
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TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.
