Film Quotes
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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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You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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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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I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.
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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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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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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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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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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
