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I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.
Satyajit Ray

Work, Home, Once

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
Helena Bonham Carter

Often, Normal, Compared

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.
Helena Bonham Carter

Character, Feeling, Real

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.
Helena Bonham Carter

Done, Small, Joy

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.
David Duchovny

Passion, Difficult, Times

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
Chrissie Hynde

Men, Real, Remember

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Training, Watch, Adjust

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.
Sienna Miller

Big, Interested, Longer

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.
Sienna Miller

Big, Commercial, Averse

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Playing, British, Fed

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Love, Stick, French

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
Adam Sandler

Love, Work, Movies

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
R. Lee Ermey

Life, Die, Kubrick

I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.
Emma Watson

Old, Proud, Rocker

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.
Emma Watson

Parents, Fact, Stuff

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
Donald Pleasence

Work, Makes, Idea

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mother, Everything, Remember

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
Jackie Chan

American, Asian, Audiences

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.
Christina Ricci

Love, Successful, Show

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.
Christina Ricci

Teenager, Anorexia

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Acting, Making

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.
Ron Fournier

Best, Dark, Picture

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes

Saying, Book, Comic

I've done quite a few big American films.
John Malkovich

Done, Big, American

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
John Malkovich

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.
Francis Ford Coppola

Great, Number, Sudden

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
Jessica Lange

Age, Tv, Decent

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
David Attenborough

History, Try, Making

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
Satyajit Ray

Small, Play, Audience

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
Jacqueline Bisset

Love, Making, Obsession

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