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Ayumi Hamasaki

"I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes."

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"I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes."

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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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"A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action."

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"And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen."

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"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."

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"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."

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"My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make."

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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."

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"Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes."

Movies

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream."

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"The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image."

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Ayumi Hamasaki
"I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams."

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