Edward Burns Quotes
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But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.
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Actors are con men and con men are actors.
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Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.
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I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
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There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.
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I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.
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Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.
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I'm trying to create a body of work that sort of represents something, and has something to say. Hopefully, I'll have a career that, 20 years from now, I'll look back and I'll have told the world about a slice of New York that they wouldn't have known about.
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That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
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Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.
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It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.
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Hooking up with anybody from your past gets you thinking about things you haven't thought about in a while. It can rekindle dreams.
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I'm always aware of who my core audiences are and I serve that niche.
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I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.
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I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.
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And at no point did making 'Brothers McMullen' feel like work or hardship. It was really just a matter of 11 days of fun over the course of 8 months.
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But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
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Look: You're not gonna become a millionaire doing this, but that was never the point. And I think a lot of people in the indie film business kind of took their eye off of that.
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I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
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When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.
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You know, I've certainly gone through periods, once I got into this business, where I tried to adopt maybe a more sophisticated style, 'cause they give you all these free clothes.
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I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
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The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.
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It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.