Film Quotes
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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.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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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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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.
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Film has to describe and show.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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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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When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
