Films Quotes
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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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There's the art house movies and the action movies and the chick films. I think the same thing's happening with actors.
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I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.
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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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We have diverse cultures and diverse audiences coming to see films. We are working hard not to repeat ourselves and to have the festival be something that the audiences and the industry feel belongs to them.
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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've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.
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My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
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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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My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
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I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.
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I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.
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It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.
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There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on 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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My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee films.
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When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.
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I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.
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Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.
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It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a different experience for me.
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A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
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What will always be possible is for someone to walk into a dark room and experience a film and connect to it. And that's why I make my films - for people to go and have that experience. That's really the whole dream for me, so that hasn't gone anywhere. What has gone somewhere is making the numbers add up on each side of it. And who knows? I've had all kinds of freak-outs. I got married recently, and my wife listened to me go off the other day on this fear that maybe our culture has just moved beyond art entirely. Maybe we don't need it anymore.
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There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
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Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
