Film Quotes
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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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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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I did a film about a con-artist mom and son called Bringing Up Bobby that Famke Janssen wrote and directed. No one's gonna hire me for their big-budget romantic comedy, so it's up to me to look out for great indie comedies and show people a different side of myself - even if it's for three people outside of my family.
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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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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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 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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Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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I love con-men characters in film.
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I've realised that to make a successful film, you have to be with a unit which is happy and positive from the beginning.
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I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
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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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The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.
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If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.
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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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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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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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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.
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Film still looks way better than digital.
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Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
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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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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.
