Film Quotes
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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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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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I would love to go to film school.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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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.
