Nina Jacobson Quotes
Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
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I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.
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Something smells fishy and they say it's you, all I know is that you made it with the whole damn crew.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
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Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.
