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.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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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.
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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.
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I love doing kids' films.
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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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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.
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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.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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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.
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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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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.
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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.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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I support all Australian films.
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The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next.
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I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
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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.
