Kevin Spacey Quotes
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Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
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Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.
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If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
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Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
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If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.
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Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
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A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."
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Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can possibly be." And sometimes you walk away thinking, "Wow. There are qualities in that character that I didn't realize I had." And those can be both interesting and uncomfortable.
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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.
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I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.
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I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
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If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
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To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.
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No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.
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At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.
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It's the way I feel about acting. That we are given clues by a writer about someone's essence or persona and it's our job to try to figure out which of those clues are true, which of clues we decide to follow and which of those clues we think are red herrings, or only in the way another character thinks of that character.
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I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.
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I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.
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I love producing, I love bringing things together.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
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While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.