Film Quotes
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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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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
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I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.'
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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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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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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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.
