"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."
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"And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow."
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"Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed."
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"I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light."
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"My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film."
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"I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave."
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"We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!"
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"Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films."
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"Film is a battleground."
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"I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film"
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"There is no higher form of artistic expression then film"
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"I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome."
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"(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life."
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"You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'"
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"I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch."
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"I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies."
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"When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI."
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"For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes."
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"When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too."
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"All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar."
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