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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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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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
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I did an after-school special as my first big thing. It was starring Butterfly McQueen. She was the name. But the real star of it was Robbie Rist, who was that little blond kid who looked like John Denver.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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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.
