Eric Weiner Quotes
A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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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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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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Good is not good when better is expected.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie - in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.
