Mike Leigh Quotes
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Film has to describe and show.
Ralph Bakshi
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
Famke Janssen
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
Hansika Motwani
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
Laura Prepon
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Ralph Fiennes
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
A. R. Rahman
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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.
Mahesh Babu
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
Hansika Motwani
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
Lance Henriksen
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
Laura Lippman
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
Kabir Bedi
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
Abel Ferrara
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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
Beau Willimon
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
Damian Lewis
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
T. J. Thyne
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Optional is latin for 'Be There'.
Darryl Sutter
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The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
Hayden Fry
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I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.
Mike Leigh