Linda Blair Quotes
Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
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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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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
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Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
