Film Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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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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I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some Hollywood studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.
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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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Film still looks way better than digital.
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I love con-men characters in film.
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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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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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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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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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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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You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
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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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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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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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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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've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
