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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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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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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A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
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I gave away the Irish dancing, which is pivotal. It's just so silly and fun and nice to do because it kind of lifts the energy for us, right at the point where the energy could start to take a nose dive.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it.
