Cynthia Nixon Quotes
There's a way in which I feel like, when you're on an enormous film and there's an enormous crew and there are three cameras and there are like 20 setups for every scene, first of all, it's very... I find it very intimidating. And it's also sort of deadening in a way.
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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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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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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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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
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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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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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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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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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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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I think the future is intrinsically linked with our universal human problems. In fact, it's these very problems, and how we deal with them, which will determine our future.
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There's a way in which I feel like, when you're on an enormous film and there's an enormous crew and there are three cameras and there are like 20 setups for every scene, first of all, it's very... I find it very intimidating. And it's also sort of deadening in a way.
