Film Quotes
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We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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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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'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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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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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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'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
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I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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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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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.
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I've directed independent film.
