Manuel Puig Quotes
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Film is anti-language.
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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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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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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 want to be my own person.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original 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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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
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There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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I jump at any chance to go back into theater.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
