Jack Nicholson Quotes About Film
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.
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You can't handle the truth!
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The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.
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I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.
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Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.
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As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.
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Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.
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It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.
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Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
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There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.
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