Film Quotes
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I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
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I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.
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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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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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I'm planning some films in the U.K., and it will have pros and cons. It takes a lot more time to set up a film in the U.K., because you can't rely on much. In Greece, friends show up and bring what they can and you make the film. Well, that's a bit simpler than how it really is. But when you make a film with proper industries, it takes more time to synch all these things.
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Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in.
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I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.
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I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.
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There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.
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When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.
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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
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You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her Claudia Cardinale. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.
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I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.
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I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
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I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
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It's been quoted in articles and all that ?this is like A Day Without a Mexican .? That the film was prophetic.
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When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.
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I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
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Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
