Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Fabienne Dorléac) Quotes
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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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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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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I'm not a romantic.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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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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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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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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I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.
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In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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There are certain things producers ask you to do, and when I was starting out, I said yes to everything. I was asked, for 'Quo Vadis,' to drive a chariot. I said, 'Oh yes. I'm licenced for all vehicles.' Two days later, I was sitting in this dustbin with two very aggressive horses. I didn't stay in it for long.
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That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
