Film Quotes
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
