Film Quotes
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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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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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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The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of the pranks from these guys.
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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've done a lot of TV, but not film.
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TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.
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There are literally a thousand works with the title Malcolm X in them. There are over 350 films and over 320 web-based educational resources with the title Malcolm X, yet the vast majority of them are based on secondary literatures, that is, not on primary source material.
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I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
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Every film is hard to fund.
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I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
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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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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
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Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
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I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
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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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I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
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Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.
