Film Quotes
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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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The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.
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In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
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I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
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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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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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It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.
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Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
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Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
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With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; it is what it is. It's an adventure film.
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I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
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Brookline was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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I love being a part of the whole journey of a film being made.
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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
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I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
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I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.
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If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.
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People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
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When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
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I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
