Film Quotes
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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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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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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 love con-men characters in film.
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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 was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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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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We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.
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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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'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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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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I was shooting for 'Maaya' when I got a call from John Abraham's office. They told me about the film and asked if I could audition. But since I was shooting, I recorded my audition and sent them the tapes. The next thing I know, I was on board.
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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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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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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.
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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.
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Film still looks way better than digital.
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My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.
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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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Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called She Married Her Boss with Melvyn Douglas.
