Sam Shepard 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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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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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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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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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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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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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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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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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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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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My career has been one long love letter to California as a whole, top to bottom.
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Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.
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Working to anticipate the future can be a distraction from the important task of dealing with the present.
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A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.
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Film is anti-language.
