Wole Soyinka Quotes
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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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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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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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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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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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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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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've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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It was my second film," said Brown. "It was all completely new to me and wonderful and amazing. I would have had fun doing just about anything.
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I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.
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I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
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When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.
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The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.
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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
