Kevin Spacey Quotes
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
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As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
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The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.
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I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.
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Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
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I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
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Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.
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If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
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Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.
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No one should ever feel sorry for me. Ive been treated very well for the most part.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.
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Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.
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Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office weekend. I measure it by how much people actually participate in the process.
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Sometimes I'll be flipping through the channels and I'll see a movie I'm in. And I'll probably stop and think, 'Sure, I'll watch this.'
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It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.
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I am not an image. I am a human being.
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The greatest sound in the theater is silence.
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People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best analogy I can give." If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah it's the same rules but it's a different game every time you're out on that court.And that's the best analogy I can come up with the theater.
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I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be a gobble gobble turkey. And you go and watch it and it is great.
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I find drinking really helps.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe that he's not real.