Robert Rodriguez Quotes
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
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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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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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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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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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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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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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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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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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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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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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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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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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There's a scene in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.
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Racism and prejudice exist there at the National Film Board like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.
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I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It’s right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.
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I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
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If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
