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Film Quotes
"Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever."
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"And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them."
40
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
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"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."
40
"You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry."
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"The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film."
40
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
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"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
Film,
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"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them."
Film,
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"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
Film,
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"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
39
"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
39
"Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie."
39
"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."
39
"I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much."
Film,
39
"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."
39
"That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game."
39
"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
38
"I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film."
38
"A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'"
38
"Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel."
38
"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
Film,
38
"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
Film,
38
"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
38
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
38
"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
38
"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."
Film,
38
"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
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