Film Quotes
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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 won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.
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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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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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You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.
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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.
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I love con-men characters in film.
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Film still looks way better than digital.
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When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.
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'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.
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All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.
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The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called She Married Her Boss with Melvyn Douglas.
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I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.
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I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
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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 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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As an actor, I want to do something I will be remembered for. I think Maaya is that kind of film.
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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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.
