Film Quotes
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
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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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There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.
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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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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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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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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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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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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
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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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Film has always been where my heart is.
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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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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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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.
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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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A day on a film set is maddening.
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Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.
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Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
