Sam Tsui Quotes
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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?'
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Film has to describe and show.
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
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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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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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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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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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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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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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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 know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.
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If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
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Unlike some viruses, we don't know what the natural reservoir is for Ebola. A lot of people think it's bats, but it's still very controversial; it could have been circulating in insects, in an environment, or in individuals.
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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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At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it.
