Film Quotes
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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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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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.
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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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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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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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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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Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
