Films Quotes
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Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
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One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black – and – white films.
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My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
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I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.
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I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.
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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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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 forayed into films in 1974, and I was done with college in 1975.
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I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.
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I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.
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I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
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I'm interested in making films that make people think.
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I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.
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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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When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
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You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
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My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
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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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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'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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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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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.
