Film Quotes
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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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It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
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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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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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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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 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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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 discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
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A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
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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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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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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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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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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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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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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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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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Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after 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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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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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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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.
