Film Quotes
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You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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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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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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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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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
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'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.
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Tom and I have a similar sensibility and experience. You know his dad was from Kentucky where I set the film, and so was mine. That's where he died. His mom's really important in his life and so is mine,
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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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'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
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I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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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 am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.
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Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
