Film Quotes
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Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.
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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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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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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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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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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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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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I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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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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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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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 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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A day on a film set is maddening.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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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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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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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on 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'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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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
