Film Quotes
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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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 also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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Every film is hard to fund.
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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
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'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.
