Film Quotes
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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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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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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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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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've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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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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You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.
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There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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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 have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
