Film Quotes
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As much as I moved to New York and tried to work in theater as much as I could - I developed a relationship with Circle Rep - make no mistake about it, I really, really wanted to be in a film. It seemed like almost everyone I knew at least did something in a movie, except me.
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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
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Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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Son of Saul film is extremely emotional; you're watching people walk in, you're watching people die. It centers around a child that goes into the ovens but survives the gassing.
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I'm not really volunteering for no family films. I really like the sweet spot of being able to be edgy and controversial.
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The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.
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When you are successful, there is this tendency to repeat the elements that we believe have worked in a certain film. Then it becomes formulaic, and there is no getting back.
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James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.
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I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.
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All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.
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I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.
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The difference between working on Asian and American films is in the producer and director; everyone has their own style. But, Hollywood has a lot more money; they can spend a lot on films, and time. In Europe, there's a small budget and thinking about commercial. Only budget and taste is different between there and Hollywood.
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I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.
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But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
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When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.
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It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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When you make a film, you come to say something.
