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When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.


Carmine Coppola

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MICHAEL CAINE When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, b...
DREW BARRYMORE One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to ...
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ETC WANYANWU The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
DARIO ARGENTO Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.
MARK TWAIN Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
MARK TWAIN When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going, ... And then you...
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WHIT STILLMAN When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwo...
SAFFRON BURROWS If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when yo...
ASGHAR FARHADI I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia...
ZOE KAZAN Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
QUENTIN TARANTINO Before it controls you, control your mind with love and appreciation.
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MIKE SHANAHAN Control success before it controls you.
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MARK WATERS You are a d***head. You can't film me without asking first, ... If you like, we can go into the pres...
MARCELLO LIPPI There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and ...
MATTHEW MORRISON In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses....
GWYNETH PALTROW Control your anger before it controls you
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JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU [The theme of the two-hour film is,] What is true love, and how do you know it when you see it? Is i...
PATRICIA HEATON I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c...
EDGAR WRIGHT Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I d...
NICOLE KIDMAN Film is wonderful, but it degrades with each showing. You'll get scratches, dirt in the film and sid...
BILL MEAD Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular fi...
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SAM SHEPARD When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
TED KOTCHEFF Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
JAMES LIPTON When you get on stage you turn into another person man, I mean I swear I turn into Tyler Durden (fro...
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MAX VON SYDOW When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on...
RICHARD ROUNDTREE When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team ...
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ETTA PISANO With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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