Film Quotes
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I was going to become a youth worker because I do voluntary work with the kids in the little village where I live. I make little films with them and stuff when I'm not working. I thought, I'll pack it in then and go and do something I love doing, and get a regular job because I've got two kids and a mortgage.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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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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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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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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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 had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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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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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 am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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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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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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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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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.
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A day on a film set is maddening.
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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
