Alan Rickman Quotes
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.Alan Rickman
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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.
Dan Aykroyd -
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 -
When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
Gabourey Sidibe -
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
Hansika Motwani -
Film is anti-language.
Sam Shepard -
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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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
Tao Okamoto -
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.
J. C. Chandor -
I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
Fionn Whitehead -
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Orson Welles -
The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
Baz Luhrmann
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
Ralph Fiennes -
The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
Victor LaValle -
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
Laura Dern -
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 -
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand -
I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
Dacre Montgomery
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If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
Quentin Tarantino -
I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.
Sandra Oh -
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.
Steve Martin -
But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.
Kevin Kline -
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
Alan Rickman