George Michael Quotes
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
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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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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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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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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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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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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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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'
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I love that this film Into the Forest has a balance.
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You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.
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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
