Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
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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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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
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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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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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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
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'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
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When preparing a role, I work first on the body language and physical aspects of the performance; the psychological dimension comes naturally once I'm in character.
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One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
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I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
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I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.
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I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
