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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Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.
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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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Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it.
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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'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and nothing is planned at all. But one link is with The Deep End, and one link is that I'm making a film later on that revolves around the relationship between an innocent party and a dead body.
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I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world.
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I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
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Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
