Andy Grundberg Quotes
...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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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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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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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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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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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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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some Hollywood studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.
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The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
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Grace means forgiveness-period.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
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...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.
