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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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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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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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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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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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 I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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Through the history of my records, from when I started controlling the visual, I always used lower case letters for everything, I can't even explain why that is. The character is actually me, and I think once you see the film for the record, or see the video or really get in to the record, that will all sort of reveal itself to you.
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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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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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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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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'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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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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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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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
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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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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
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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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I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.
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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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Film is anti-language.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
