Film Quotes
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Film is anti-language.
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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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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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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
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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 I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
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I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.
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In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
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I loved the Disney films, and Sterling Holloway was one of their chief talents. He never had to put on a voice, and that's what Mike [Mitchell] and I encourage. I love the voices that have a unique texture, but it's their real voice.
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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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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.
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I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation 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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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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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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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
