Henry Rollins Quotes
Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.
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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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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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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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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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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.
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I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
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I want my paintings to give the viewer a true sense of reality - that includes but is not limited to depth, scale and a tactile surface as well as the real sense of what the subject looks like and is feeling at the time that I painted them. There should be a discourse between the viewer and the subject, to feel as though they are in a way connected. My goal is not to set a narrative but rather to have the viewer bring their own experiences to the painting and the subject as they would if they had seen the subject on the street in real life.
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.
