Film Quotes
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I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it contemporary. That's really just not the way to go.
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I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
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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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'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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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 was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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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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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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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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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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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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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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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This inspiring film has the power to transform your health!
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You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
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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 are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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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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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
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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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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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.
