William H. Macy Quotes
A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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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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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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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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Film is anti-language.
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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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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 don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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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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I love musicals and I love Broadway.
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When I bought my first house in London with my husband-to-be, our surveyor said: "Nicki, you're paying top dollar, but it's not an investment," and I said: "But we're buying a home, not an investment."
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I know the trend I would love to bring back is floral. I think that it's just so much fun, whether it's with shoes or outfits or even pants.
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I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.
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Many people live alone and like it, but most of them live alone and look at it.
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A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.
