Film Quotes
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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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While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.
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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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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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I always take part in the creative process of every film of mine. Gone are the days where an actor would walk into the sets, finish his portions, take the money, and leave. In fact, I've been accused of being interfering - but that's the way I am. It is important for every actor to get involved with the script.
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In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
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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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I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.
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I definitely pay attention to details. I think one of the hardest things about making a movie is that it can be scrutinized over and over again. If anything just isn't right, it's going to take you out of the film.
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As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.
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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 don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
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This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
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Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
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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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I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
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It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.
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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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A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
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The fact that Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted me to be part of his film was a high point in my life.
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I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.
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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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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
