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		But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).
	
	  Corey Haim Corey Haim
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		We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
	
	  Ivor Novello Ivor Novello
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		When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.
	
	  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
			
			
				A Tribe Called Quest Kamaal Ibn John Fareed
			
			
				A Tribe Called Quest
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		There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.
	
	  Charles Burnett Charles Burnett
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		Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.
	
	  William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs
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		I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films.
	
	  Henry Rollins
			
			
				Black Flag Henry Rollins
			
			
				Black Flag
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		I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
	
	  Willem Dafoe Willem Dafoe
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		All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.
	
	  Stephen Spender Stephen Spender
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		When I was very young and first worked in Hollywood, the films had bred in me one sole ambition: to get away from them; to live inthe great world outside movies; to meet people who created their own situations through living them; who ad-libbed their own dialogue; whose jokes were not the contrivance of some gag writer.
	
	  Anita Loos Anita Loos
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		We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.
	
	  Burt Lancaster Burt Lancaster
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		I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.
	
	  Sasha Pivovarova Sasha Pivovarova
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		I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for 'Sadak'. I was standing on the road at three in the night, but little did I know that I would be making a film with Sanjay at some point in my career.
	
	  Boman Irani Boman Irani
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		One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.
	
	  Amy Ziering Amy Ziering
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		You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.
	
	  Nick Cave
			
			
				The Birthday Party Nick Cave
			
			
				The Birthday Party
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		For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.
	
	  Mike Leigh Mike Leigh
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		They said, "You get $2 million to make the film, if you're not in it. If you are in it, you get $5 million to make the film." There was no way to make the thing for $2 million, so I made it for $5 million. And then, it turned out there was no way to make the thing for $5 million. That's when it got weird.
	
	  Johnny Depp Johnny Depp