Bent Sæther Quotes
I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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I was a teenager in the '80s - and maybe I'm wrong about this - but it seemed like a bad era for movies that were scary. It was really the height of movies that were disgusting.
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Life Is Too Short To Make Bad Movies
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The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a beer afterwards' bit - and once is kind of enough.
