Film Quotes
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Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.
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John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
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I just hope that my films will survive me.
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I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan Crest of Betrayal, 1994 directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
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I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.
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I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
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In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was.
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Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.
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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
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Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.
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I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
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For me the movie [Fruitvale Station ] wasn't about that. The movie's about [Oscar Grant] life. And what happens on the platform is a very short part of the film. It's from Oscar's perspective. From the perspectives of the relationships that he's involved with.
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I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.
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Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
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For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
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All my films are all my children.
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The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
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I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
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A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.
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To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman.
