Films Quotes
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I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.
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I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.
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The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
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All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.
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My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in, wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.
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I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.
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I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.
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Awards and nominations really help sell films.
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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 definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.
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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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Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.
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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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Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
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Cara Delevingne I wanted to be sure that she would be involved. 'Cause she didn't do a lot of films before I met her, so I didn't know if she was serious and so I push her a bit.
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An actor does not have anything to do with the business of screening films.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.
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I have been very cautious about the films that I do. I hope to always entertain my audience. The day I am not able to do that, I will quit acting.
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I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
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I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
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My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.
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Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.
