Film Quotes
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.
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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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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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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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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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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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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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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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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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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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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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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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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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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 was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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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 television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.
