Films Quotes
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My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.
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I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
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I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
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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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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.
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When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
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We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
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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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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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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.
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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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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 hope I'm always lucky enough to be able to work in theater, TV, and big films and small films. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to all of them. The fact that this was a small film without much money and without much time made it rich in energy and momentum and drive when we were actually making it 'cause that's all you've got. You've just got the story and the people.
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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 don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
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Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.
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I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
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I love films, I love the way they make me feel.
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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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I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
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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.
