Film Quotes
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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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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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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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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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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 never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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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 am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
