Akshay Kumar Quotes
I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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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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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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Film is anti-language.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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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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There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.
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It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
