Film Quotes
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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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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
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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 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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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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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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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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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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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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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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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'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.
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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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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.
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My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
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The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
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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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If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.
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Film is anti-language.
