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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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
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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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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.
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Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
