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Marisa Tomei

"I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck."

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"I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck."

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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."

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"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."

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"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."

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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."

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"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."

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"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

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"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

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"I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist."
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"Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting."
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"All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting."
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"A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality."
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"You express different energies at different times in your life."
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"I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part."
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"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater."
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