Harrison Ford Quotes
That film What's My Line was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film that I had was him making a speech.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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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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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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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.
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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 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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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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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.
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Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of competition.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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That film What's My Line was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film that I had was him making a speech.
