Films Quotes
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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 father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee films.
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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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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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The way that I make films is that I sit down and I think, "How much money could I get with less consequences?" And that's how I start. I'd rather have less money and total autonomy than more money and start having to answer to things, because then I'm not being true and the money men are not being true.
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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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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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Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!
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When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
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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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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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When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.
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Those are hard films to make, medieval films. Nobody will put a lot of cash into it, but it needs a lot of money because of sets and costumes and stuff. I really, really wanted to make that film just because I knew it would be a big challenge, and I also knew that I wanted to create a world that was my world and it wasn't a world based on what we all know.
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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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I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.
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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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It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
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If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if the person goes out of the theatre and, for example, makes the dinner he's eating later on, extra nice then I feel that I have succeeded. We have this urge to anaesthetize the moment we're living in.
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In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.
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I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.
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Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.
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I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.
