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James Iha

"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."

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"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood."

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Amber Hurdle

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."

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Amber Hurdle

"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."

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Amber Hurdle

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke."

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James Iha
"It's not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of 'em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they're Asian and I'm Asian."
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James Iha
"You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well."
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James Iha
"Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music."
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"But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am."
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James Iha
"The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot."
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James Iha
"So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience."
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James Iha
"No, I've heard over the years that it's nice for them to see somebody who's like, you know, a well-known successful musician who's Asian. I've heard it from a few musicians, too."
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James Iha
"Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time."
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James Iha
"I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there."
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"Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band."
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