Film Quotes
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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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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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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 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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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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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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This inspiring film has the power to transform your health!
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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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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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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 was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
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I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.
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I love that this film Into the Forest has a balance.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.
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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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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 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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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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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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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
