Films Quotes
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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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A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
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You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.
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For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.
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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've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
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I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.
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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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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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My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.
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Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.
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It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
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I know that if I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. That, I remember, and I know I have to accept it.
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I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact.
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A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.
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To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
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We have little bits of comedy throughout our films but this is like a full-on comedy. I had great time. It was fun to do a comedy and see a lot of the people I worked with on our previous films and meet some new actors. It was a good experience for me.
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I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good.
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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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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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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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I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.
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I have no ambition. I am sure that I should, but... I do films when they are proposed. But I never go and look for them.
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You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
