Film Quotes
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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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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.
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I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes.
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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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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
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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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The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.
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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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If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.
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I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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A day on a film set is maddening.
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I am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
