Manny Montana Quotes
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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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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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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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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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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.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'
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I think I would've been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it's all about longevity.
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One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.
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The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.
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One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
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Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
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I've done a lot of TV, but not film.
