Films Quotes
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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
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I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
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My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.
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Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, to us, are some of the greatest films ever made, and each is better than the one before it. But if you go to Toy Story 6, they all end up decomposing in a trash heap somewhere.
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Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'
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I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
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There are people who don't like to use other films as research, but I love it.
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I think optimism and humour are key words for me to make the films accessible, which means they can really travel and be seen by as many people as possible.
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Who says that big-budget films are safer than mid-range films? In terms of return on investment, I'd rather have 'Sling Blade' and 'Shine' than 'Volcano.'
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Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.
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I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.
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I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.
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There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
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All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.
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I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
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I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.
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I'm interested in making films that make people think.
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I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.
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Those who permit music, films, etc, just don’t get it; they don’t realise the damage it does to the soul.
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I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
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Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
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I think the work is the same in Indie films or blockbuster. It's just a difference when you do all the publicity. It's like another job. I remember the first time I did The Dreamers. I went to Venice; quite a good amount of publicity, a lot of round-tables and TV. I was just not expecting that. I thought I was going to visit Venice, but actually no.
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If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
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Personally, I just want to work on stuff that challenges me, that excites me, and that I think is original. You want to do something that does to other people what films do to you. It's the most wonderful thing in the world when you can lose yourself from reality and go into a story, and believe it and go on that journey with people, and you have to work that will somehow do that. It won't always, but hopefully sometimes.
