Film Quotes
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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News writes history from the perspective of politicians. Film writes history from the perspective of the people.
