Film Quotes
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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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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I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.
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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'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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News writes history from the perspective of politicians. Film writes history from the perspective of the people.
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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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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
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My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
