Films Quotes
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I tried making films with messages. Now I’d rather send a text!
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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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The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.
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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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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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When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So many of them were really more about the human condition and about relationships between people, and they were smaller films that had a much greater impact on me as a human being.
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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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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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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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Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.
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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 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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[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 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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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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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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I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.
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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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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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In the films the good guy always wins, but this is one bad guy who ain't gonna lose.
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I left Australia when I was 18 and I've been a foreigner for 36 years. I think that's very important to the way I work because as a foreigner you see things differently. But I started making Chinese-language films so I regard myself as a Chinese filmmaker. I just happen to be white. Or pink, actually.
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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.
