Films Quotes
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What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer.
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If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.
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I want to do films that are genre-based and character-based.
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
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Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.
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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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If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
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There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.
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For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
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Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.
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I have always acted in films where women have an equal, if not bigger, role than mine. Don't the kind of films you do reflect your personality?
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For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.
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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
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I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
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I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
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I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
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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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I love films, I love the way they make me feel.
