Andrew Bujalski Quotes

It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.

Andrew Bujalski

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• I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Community
  • Doing
  • Theater

• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Passion
  • Found
  • Theater

• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Care
  • Films
  • Defend

• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Decision
  • Actor
  • Films

• I love doing kids' films.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Kids
  • Doing
  • Films

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Me
  • First
  • Deal

• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Great
  • Kids
  • See

• Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • World
  • Energy
  • Market

• I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Done
  • Films
  • Lot

• You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Films

• There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

  

  Sada Thompson
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Always

• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Influence

• Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Real
  • Me
  • Feel

• Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Films
  • European

• I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Stories
  • Songs

• I have died in enough TV and films.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Enough
  • Films
  • TV

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Love
  • Food

• Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

  

  Melissa Rivers
  • Worst
  • Breakup

• I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Feeling
  • I Love
  • Fresh Air

• It's always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that's always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Films
  • Theater
  • Market