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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
A great deal of the adverse criticism and unfavorable advertising that Hollywood and the motion-picture business have had has been in large measure due to the sudden acquisition of a great deal of money on the part of a few person who never had it before. You cannot spend a large income wisely if you have not saved or handled a small one well.
What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L. A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisical.
I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.
The film concludes with the most nauseatingly luscious, the most penetratingly vulgar mammy song that it has ever been my lot to hear. My flesh crept as the loud speaker poured out those sodden words, the greasy, sagging melody. I felt ashamed of myself for listening to such things, for even being a member of the species to which such things are addressed.