Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.
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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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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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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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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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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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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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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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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 make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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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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If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
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I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.
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Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.
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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.
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We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
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My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.
