Film Quotes
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.
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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 am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure.
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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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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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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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All things considered, if you're going to miss one film this year, make it Vanilla Sky.
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Film is anti-language.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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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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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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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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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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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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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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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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I told them, 'Don't even think about the camera. It may not even be near you. Just have the party.' And then there's somebody in the middle of them shooting film.
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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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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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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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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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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
