Quotes by Alex Karpovsky - Page 1

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Day To Day
Fear Of Death
Issues
Rooted
Local
Underlying
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Relationships are possible, but are definitely not a road paved with roses.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
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What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Authenticity
Character
Rooted
Stories
Two
Comedies
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A lot of young people think they are not going to die - and that's a great thing about being a young person, is living in this carefree oblivion.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Carefree
People
Thinking
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My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Psychological
Thrillers
Spot
Soft Spot
Types
Viewer
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Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
New York
Boston
Parent
Writing
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I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Boston
Cry
Overwhelmed
Easily
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I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Balance
Loud
Personal Life
Subway
Trying
Preserve
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I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Control Freak
Efficiency
Freak
Notes
Myself Me Picture
Directing
Overall
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Some people should have more levels of maturity than others, but you know to have a show that's grounded, tethered to reality, if you follow a group of people for six years and you show no maturity, I think that would be inaccurate.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Maturity
Reality
Thinking
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If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Creative Expression
Fate
Notion
Sensibility
Uncomfortable
Acted
Future Enough Me
Future Me People
Deeply
Surrendering
Unsettling
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To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Alive
Engaged
Interacting
Nervous
Threatened
Wonderful
Best Always Feel
Attracted
Best Part
Downhill
In Fact
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If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Cutting
Distressing
Disturbing
People
Rooms
Wide
Moment People Feel
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What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Clip
Good Acting
Ultimate
Good World Me
Authentic
Test
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I do have commitment phobia, which I think is underlied by death anxiety. I feel that if you are in a relationship, there is a real genuine possibility of plateauing, and there is a possibility for a creative, emotional and spiritual death because of it. Only part of me feels this way, but it's enough to create an anxiety which makes me think twice before committing.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Commitment
Real
Spiritual
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There's this biological association, when you do this movement, these things happen, and you're basically trying to rewire this 4-billion-year-old reflexive circuitry, which for me can be challenging if I don't really focus. It's the one of the few times as an actor where you are basically showing something with your body and your face that's completely different than what's going on in your mind.
Alex Karpovsky / Film Director
Challenges
Focus
Mind
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