Film Quotes
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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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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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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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Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.
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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 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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Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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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 discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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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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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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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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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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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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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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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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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This inspiring film has the power to transform your health!
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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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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
