Film Quotes
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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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I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.
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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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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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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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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
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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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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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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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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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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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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 have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.
