Brett Gelman Quotes

I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

Brett Gelman

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• A Night at the Opera
• Marx Brothers

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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?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
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  • Film
  • Enough

• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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  • Me
  • Film

• The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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  • Present
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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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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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.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • Love
  • Film

• A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Film
  • Budget

• 'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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  • Film
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• I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.

  

  Imogen Poots
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  • Film
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• Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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  • Film

• 'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.

  

  Ram Charan
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  • Lovely
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• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Great
  • Believe
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• I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Live
  • Done
  • Interesting

• When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

  

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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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• From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
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• I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Film
  • Friday
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• I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

  

  Chika Anadu
  • People
  • Want
  • Film

• Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Insanity
  • Drunkenness

• Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

  

  Tim Ferriss
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  • Problems
  • Creates

• With few words, one can speak the truth.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Speak

• I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Film
  • A Night at the Opera
  • Marx Brothers