Film Quotes
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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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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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 studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.
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No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a 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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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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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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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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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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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
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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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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 think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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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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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
