Film Quotes
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The Song Remains The Same is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
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So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.
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What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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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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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you get in theater.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
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Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of Twilight, and then it happened again on New Moon. Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
