William Friedkin Quotes
Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
Quotes to Explore
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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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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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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.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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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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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.
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All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
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Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
