Film Quotes
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Ellen Page and I had only met a couple of times, but had mutual admiration for each other's work. When I first heard about the film Into the Forest, I was excited to get a chance to work with one of my peers because it's usually one or the other. You don't get to work with all of the other actors that you're usually competing with.
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I love con-men characters in film.
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The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
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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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There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.
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If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.
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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've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
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The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.
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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.
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The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.
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I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.
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I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.
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Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."
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For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
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All my films are all my children.
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On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.
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Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
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A lot of feature films do two pages a day.
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The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
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Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
