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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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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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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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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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.
