Ralph Fiennes Quotes About Film
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one." And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.
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