Films Quotes
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My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.
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I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
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I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.
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Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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It's very embarrassing to talk of your own work before shooting for it and even before it is released. I have been a witness to many of our actors turning red-faced after their films release. I'd rather not be there.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
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I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.
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I am the guinea pig of my films in a way. I test the stories a bit before I make them. I've never hung myself like the character in my latest film, but I've tried to be a reporter of life.
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I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
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To be honest, I just didn't want to say "Thank you," "Please," and "Come again" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.
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Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.
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The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.
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My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee films.
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People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.
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Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.
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At first I was not sure if I liked films. The sequences are so disconnected and mechanical I thought I should have difficulty "getting into the skin" of the characters. But I soon found that the care, precision and concentrated energy that attends the photographing of each scene conspires to pitch one into the right frame of mind.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.
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The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way you usually see Indians in movies, then they are without a spiritual base and become subhuman.
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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.
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In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
