Films Quotes
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I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.
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Films are a very tangible thing. It's making something with your hands. I think all of these guys - Roger and the whole cast of this movie - what they did was they were willing to make mistakes. They were willing to make movies that were really bad. But they learned.
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Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.
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I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.
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My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.
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I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.
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I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.
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There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.
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British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."
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I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.
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Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.
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I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.
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Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.
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It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
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I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
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I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
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There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
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I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.
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Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.
