Albert Serra Quotes
I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema would be funnier because it's collective, and it's crazy, and it's chaotic, and also because I was based in Spain. So I said it will be easy to make a career of that - because all the other filmmakers there are very bad. And it will be funny at the same time. So this was the point. It will be funnier, easier, and maybe at the end there will be some unknown beauty, and maybe on the way we'll create the dream that a different logic is possible for life.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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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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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.
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Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
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When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
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I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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Sculpturing didn't stick with me. I never felt I wanted to go on with that.
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It takes a lot when you are a professional fighter to stay in top condition. You have to sacrifice a lot and I did.
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I wanted to be a real writer, you can put it this way, but I was lazy. So I thought that cinema would be funnier because it's collective, and it's crazy, and it's chaotic, and also because I was based in Spain. So I said it will be easy to make a career of that - because all the other filmmakers there are very bad. And it will be funny at the same time. So this was the point. It will be funnier, easier, and maybe at the end there will be some unknown beauty, and maybe on the way we'll create the dream that a different logic is possible for life.
