Alan Rickman Quotes
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
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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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Film has to describe and show.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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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.
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Film is anti-language.
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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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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.
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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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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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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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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.
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I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
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The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.
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It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
