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Brendan Fraser
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“I am not a stranger to that”
Sarah Polley
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“It felt so revolutionary”
Edward Berger
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“All it takes is a good script”
John Malkovich
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“I am not in any hurry”
Saniyya Sidney
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“This is what I want to do”
Deborah L. Scott
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“The heart of it is always the same”
Jon Landau
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“I can’t do anything unless I’m all in”
Matthew Libatique
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“That’s not lost on me”
Deborah Landis
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“Costumes are talismans”
Alan Menken
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“Always be in love with the process”
Lupita Nyong’o
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“I have to transform who I am”
Kyle Bell
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“I can do this”
Ludovico Einaudi
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“It was like a ritual”
Idris Elba
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“The process is like a jigsaw puzzle”
David Newman
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“You’re bonded to it”
Rob Reiner
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“I believe in it”
Whitney White
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“Just keep expanding”
Olivia Wilde
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“It lights you up”
Danny Elfman
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“I’m wired in this way”
Glenn Close
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“My passion is exactly the same”
Sam Raimi
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“It’s done in earnestness”
Elizabeth Olsen
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“I just had to step it up”
Jamie Bell
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“I get what I want out of it”
Caleb Landry Jones
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“Acting will always be strange to me”
Dwayne Johnson
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“It comes with the game”
Marlee Matlin
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“That’s what keeps me going”
Jane Campion
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“It has to go beyond”
Ari Wegner
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“It’s a really connected experience”
Joe Wright
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“It’s a matter of feeling”
Adrien Brody
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“I don’t have an option”
Henry Cavill
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“We don’t play a perfect game at all times”
Chaitanya Tamhane
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“I want to find my own language”
Abel Ferrara
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“Does pain really teach you at all?”
Bill Murray
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“It’s more intake than output”
Edgar Wright
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“It becomes a bit like alchemy”
Liam Neeson
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“I created my own luck”
Liesl Tommy
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“Let your instincts take over”
Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
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“It was a different type of mission”
Agustina San Martin
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“I refuse to be one thing”
Elijah Wood
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“Every film has its own part to play”
Sean Penn
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“I wouldn’t trade it for anything”
Andreas Deja
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“Realism is the tough part”
Steven Soderbergh
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“I can’t reverse a trend”
Gael García Bernal
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“Growing up is such a gift”
Newton Thomas Sigel
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“I can close my eyes and see it”
Sheila Atim
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“This is who we are”
Ruth E. Carter
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“We have to make it come to life”
Daniel Kaluuya
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“Making it is not impossible”
Chloé Zhao
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“I call it the age of innocence”
Leslie Odom Jr.
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“We have to make room for all of it”
Tahar Rahim
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“Why recreate when you can create?”
Jared Leto
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“Every film has changed my life”
Emile Hirsch
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“That’s why I am the way I am”
Melissa Leo
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“Acting has given me a purpose”
Michael Shannon
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“There’s no reward other than knowledge”
Miranda July
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“I am making more room in the world”
Tim Roth
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“It was our turn now”
Richard Dreyfuss
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“I have achieved all my dreams”
Jane Birkin
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“There was a sense of being totally free”
Paul Feig
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“Comedy is never going to go away”
Susanne Bier
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“I never looked back”
Seth MacFarlane
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“There’s room for all”
RZA
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“I knew where to go”
Sarah Paulson
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“It’s the way you come up”
David J. Peterson
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“Does it fit the culture?”
Vanessa Kirby
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“Empathy is the job for an actor”
Maisie Williams
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“I’ve learned to protect myself”
Kenneth Branagh
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“It’s not such a great leap”
Tracee Ellis Ross
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“Why not do it in a big way?”
Armando Iannucci
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“There are no rules anymore”
Bill Nighy
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“If everybody laughs, job done”
George MacKay
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“You can’t dream up something you haven’t felt”
Ellen Kuras
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“I’ve always worked in my mind’s eye”
Bill Conti
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“I’m writing it for emotional reaction”
Rodrigo Prieto
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“It’s all about emphasizing emotions”
Laura Dern
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“We have to evolve together”
Renée Zellweger
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“I try to concentrate on something true”
Bong Joon-ho
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“The fear is hard to get rid of”
Taika Waititi
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“No idea is final”
Sam Mendes
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“No one is owed anything”
Matt Damon
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“These types of movies are going away”
Wally Pfister
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“I had to shift to storytelling”
Keira Knightley
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“It’s the joy of growing up”
Hilary Swank
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“You’ve got to trust your instincts”
Ludwig Göransson
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“I’m building a puzzle”
Pedro Almodóvar
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“Keep it on the rails”
Colleen Atwood
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“You want them to resonate”
Francis Ford Coppola
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“It’s a devastating decision”
Chloë Sevigny
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“I am leaning towards mysticism”
Christoph Waltz
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“It has nothing to do with the job”
John C. Reilly
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“We all owe a debt”
Nicole Kidman
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“You choose the path”
Spike Lee
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“I’m not a quitter”
Mahershala Ali
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“The stakes were always high”
Olivia Colman
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“It will always be a mystery”
Rami Malek
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“It was daunting to live up to that”
Joel Edgerton
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“I create my freedom around that”
Mark Duplass
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“It’s a dog fight”
Ralph Fiennes
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“One’s vanity is always there”
Matt Dillon
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“There’s always something to look for”
Steve McQueen
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“It’s about what’s right, not what fits”
Javier Bardem
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“My slate is clean”
Stacy Martin
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“The film saves me”
Woody Harrelson
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“I have hypnotized myself”
Charlie Hunnam
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“I worry that I’ll get devoured”
Marianne Elliott
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“You’re there to change lives”
Ridley Scott
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“You can't have a comfortable ride”
Bryan Cranston
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“I want to slow it down”
Amy Schumer
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“That’s all I can ask for”
Benedict Cumberbatch
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“Your mind has the power to shape reality”
Andrew Garfield
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“It’s a wound and a gift”
Aaron Sorkin
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“That takes quite an ego”
Luca Guadagnino
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“I try to surrender to my evidences”
Jodie Foster
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“We are in an era of identity searching”
Guillermo del Toro
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“I am not meta, I am really earnest”
Daniel Radcliffe
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“I’ve released a lot of the pressure”
Kristin Scott Thomas
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“You forget how much it hurts”
Jim Carrey
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“There is no me”
Andrew Kevin Walker
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“It still gave me nightmares”
Denise Gough
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“It feels like I need to hold back”
Jeff Goldblum
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“I can do this in a hundred ways”
Rebecca Hall
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“People are still people”
Steve Buscemi
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“I don’t really think about emotions”
Judi Dench
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“I have an irrational fear of boredom”
Eric Roth
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“Screenwriting is a bastardized form of art”
Russell Crowe
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“I have a moral standard of my own”
Diane Lane
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“I try not to draw attention to myself”
Todd Haynes
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“You have to be alone to be inspired”
Richard Gere
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“We are all in this together”
Alfie Allen
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“It’s a form of torture every night”
Lily James
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“You’re at the mercy of circumstance”
James McAvoy
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“I don’t feel entitled”
Ang Lee
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“No one can see what’s coming”
Sienna Miller
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“It’s always a dilemma”
Guy Pearce
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“Where’s my conviction?”
Emma Stone
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“Anxiety in its essence is fear”
James Cameron
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“All my movies are love stories”
Nick Offerman
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“I have a pugilist in me”
M. Night Shyamalan
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“I’m who you want in there”
Steve Carell
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“It’s different every time”
Jim Jarmusch
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“What are they afraid of?”
Paul Schrader
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“That day is gone”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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“It hasn’t happened yet”
Alicia Vikander
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“You just work through it”
Danny DeVito
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“You’ve gotta go in all the way”
J.K. Simmons
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“Good writing makes me crazy”
Owen Wilson
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“You just go with it”
Julianne Moore
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“We want to feel something”
Michael Ballhaus
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“Nobody can hurt me”
Don Cheadle
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“Movies are not attempting to educate you”
Bruce Dern
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“You’ve got to keep accelerating”
Thea Sharrock
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“Deal with it and reflect on it afterwards”
Robert Richardson
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“I try to be a chameleon”
Christine Vachon
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“You have to have the stomach for it”
Ricky Gervais
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“The truth is more devastating than a lie”
Brie Larson
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“I hope my work makes people feel less alone”
Oliver Stone
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“I’m braced for disappointment”
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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“You’ve got to swing for the rafters”
Alejandro Iñárritu
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“There is no way you can stop”
Antonio Banderas
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“I live in the mystery”
Ian McKellen
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“The journey goes on”
Juliette Binoche
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“You have to be more intelligent”
Elisabeth Moss
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“Truth is stranger than fiction”
Jóhann Jóhannsson
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“Does it speak simply and directly?”
Diane Kruger
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“Who needs to be told what to think?”
Peter Dinklage
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“The fight is all”
Craig Roberts
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“Nobody knows what’s going on”
Robert Pattinson
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“Everyone wants you to be so vanilla”
Al Pacino
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“You can’t let your skin get too thick”
John Waters
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“Stop blaming your parents”
Catherine Deneuve
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“You don’t tell the same stories”
Chris Pratt
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“I’m not going to freak out”
Freida Pinto
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“If you're bothered, change the channel”
Jeff Bridges
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“Life is my guru”
Anton Yelchin
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“There are no real answers”
Wes Anderson
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“We are usually doing it one way”
Marion Cotillard
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“My dream was simple”
David Oyelowo
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“You are not the center”
Sam Rockwell
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“It’s just being there for the first time”
Susan Sarandon
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“Let’s hope it changes”
Isabella Rossellini
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“Things will come back”
David Lynch
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“Stories should have the suffering”
Kevin Kline
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“It’s a different sort of thrill”
Hans Zimmer
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“You are forever in that dream world”
Claude Chabrol
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“There’s nothing original in my movies”
Nicolas Cage
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“Sometimes it’s good to be hated”
François Ozon
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“I don't suffer”
Jesse Eisenberg
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“I’m not being tricked”
Viggo Mortensen
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“Experience should free you”
Zachary Quinto
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“I have a different journey”
John Hurt
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“There’s not much work in it”
Wim Wenders
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“Everything I loved I had to defend”
Dennis Hopper
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“I thought I had power”
Quentin Tarantino
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“It’s a corrupted cinema”
Christian Bale
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“I like being responsible for myself”
Darren Aronofsky
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“I wish I could be more manipulative”
Willem Dafoe
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“You are not driving it”
Frank Langella
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“I couldn’t look a girl in the eye”
Noah Baumbach
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“You can't get away from yourself”
Audrey Tautou
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“Who is the artist?”
Brian De Palma
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“You have to battle”
Werner Herzog
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“Trust in my wild fantasies”
Christopher Walken
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“That’s it, it’s over”
Anton Corbijn
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“My life is crazy, but it’s real love”
Morgan Freeman
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“Strive for pleasure and peace”
Jude Law
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“It's not you”
Julie Delpy
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“People should care about who they are”
Geoffrey Rush
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“Why have we become this way?”
Stellan Skarsgård
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“Yes Lars, I’ll be there”
Sarah Silverman
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“Usually I’m the idiot”
Denzel Washington
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“I don't think there is a system”
Monica Bellucci
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“I like to explore the dark side”
Gus Van Sant
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“You always want it to be different”
Edward Norton
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“It’s about balance”
Alexander Payne
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“I was far from the most talented”
Ethan Hawke
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“I wonder if I’m up to the task”
Colin Firth
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“It sounds awfully spoiled, but I’ll take it”
Charlotte Rampling
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“You have to be brave”
Jason Schwartzman
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“I enter a weird mode”
Terry Gilliam
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“Things happen”
Vincent Cassel
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“Keep the mystery alive”
Ben Kingsley
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“I love the now, it is all we have”
Charlie Kaufman
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“I don’t believe in rules”
Michael Douglas
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“Youth is wasted on the young”
Robin Wright
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“We’re always compromising”
James Franco
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“I do all my homework”
Leonardo DiCaprio
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“I am a lot calmer now”
Peter Fonda
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“I'll shoot first, right through the door.”
Anthony Hopkins
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“I see the lines, but I don’t care”
Michael Caine
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“I don’t get the girl, I get the part”
Mila Kunis
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“They build you up just to knock you down”
Colin Farrell
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“I don’t think parenthood changes you”
Will Ferrell
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“I am kind of boring to me”
Michel Gondry
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“I believe in Utopia”
Meryl Streep
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“I'm not always happy”
Jack Nicholson
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“I put on a good show”
Sofia Coppola
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“Film is our family business”
Michael Pitt
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“Don’t give yourself an out”
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