Film Quotes
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I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
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That film What's My Line was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film that I had was him making a speech.
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I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
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Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.
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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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There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.
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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 ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
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When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.
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When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
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Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.
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For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
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Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.
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I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
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Be the leads of big films that are entertaining and maybe then cross over to stuff that moves people and has a little bit more texture to it.
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The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
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Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.
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I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
