Film Quotes
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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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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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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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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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
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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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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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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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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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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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Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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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 like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
