Sylvia Sidney Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Film has to describe and show.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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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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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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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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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 really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
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I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.
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Although I feel directing is a lot more challenging, fulfilling and satisfying, it is also far more stressful & consuming. This is why I don't see myself directing one film after another in quick succession.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
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There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!
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Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
