Film Quotes
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You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.
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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
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Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!
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I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
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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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Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.
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I was always prepared for my Fringe journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.
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'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.
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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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I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
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It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.
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I would say that I think the film "I am love" is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.
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I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
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The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
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My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.
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I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
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Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
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Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said ,if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke.It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.
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I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
