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On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
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On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
If you ask me, Hollywood needs a little of the old-time craziness.
You can tell when a Hollywood historical film was made by looking at the eye makeup of their leading ladies, and you can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more strangely than the future.
I mean look, the thing about movie making and criticism and producing movies now, everyone compares everything to something else.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
He proved to be a complete boiled egg. The business of Von Sternberg and carrying a cane, and that little moustache! I'm so glad I didn't do the film.
It took me hours to get back into the mood. Had it been make-believe and nothing more, I could have turned it on and off at will. But I really was that bereaved little orphan.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.