Film Quotes
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I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.
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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 knew that Sylvester Stallone's involvement would outweigh everything else from the film. I think people went into Creed expecting a boxing movie and something that superficially ties Stallone in, but Creed was really well written.
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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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When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.
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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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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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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.
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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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Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.
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I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
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Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.
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I have a nationally distributed film whose pivotal scene is the ultrasound-guided abortion.
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If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.
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I love that this film Into the Forest has a balance.
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To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!
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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
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I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?
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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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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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I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
