Rebecca Hall Quotes
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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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Film is anti-language.
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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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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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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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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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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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I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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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.
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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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I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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Everybody loves you because you are brilliantly awkward.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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We looked like a garage band. We didn't know if it was going to work out, so we rented a lot of the stuff.
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I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
