Film Quotes
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A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
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I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.
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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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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
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The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
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Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I don't really want a film as a present; you can get me a diamond ring.
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It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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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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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
