Quotes by Andrew Dominik - Page 1

The crime film is the most honest American film.
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Crime
Film
Honest
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The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.
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Fantasy
Feels
Giving
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I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.
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Crime
Feels
Film
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Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.
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Crime
Unpleasant
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Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.
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Irony
Renowned
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I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.
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Human Beings
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Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
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Confused
Ideals
Masculine
Modern
Modern World
World
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It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.
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I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.
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Crime
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I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.
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Film
Giving
Thinking
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It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.
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Killers
People
Surprise
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I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
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Movie Star
Screenplays
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Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
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Pop Song
Pops
Song
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You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.
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Baggage
Guy
Too Much
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I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.
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Stranger
Tests
Thinking
Strangers
Test
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America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.
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Manufacturing
Offshore
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Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.
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Opposite
Complete
Complete Opposite
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Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
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Criminals
Organization
Player
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As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.
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Cutting
Embarrassed
Important
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Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
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Criminal
Persuade
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I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.
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Reason
Upset
Violence
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I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.
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When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
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Common
Groups
Organize
Self Interest
Tangled
Rules
Based
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I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.
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Broke
School
Screenwriting
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It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.
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They Say
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In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.
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Offence
Instantly
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Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
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Well Written
Sign
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When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
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Bunch
Comment
People Feel See
Bound
Invite
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Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?
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Do You Know
Stays
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Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It's almost like jamming.
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Bits
Break
Depends
Complete
Jamming
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It's very difficult to lie to yourself about certain things. I'm not necessarily convinced about how information is gathered and I don't think the credence that's given to it is valid.
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Information
Lying
Thinking
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Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.
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Coffee
Trailer
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I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.
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Awe
Brother
Efficient
Filmmaker
Guy
People
Use People Who
Brothers
Coen
People Use Who
Shoot
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I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid.
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Imagine
People
Want
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It's obviously a lot more of a political undertaking making a movie in Hollywood and it's a business there. In Australia, they don't expect films to make money; whereas in America they're counting on it.
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Film
Making Money
Political
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Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they've seen.
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Compare
Experts
Memorable
Object
Test
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I actually don't like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn't my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, '70s westerns, Nicholas Ray's neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.
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Acid
Genre
Neurotic
Preferred
Ray
Westerns
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There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.
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Crime
Railway
James
No Choice
Portrayed
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I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.
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Mostly
Occasionally
Stumble
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I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.
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Election
Tired
Believed
Exactly The Same
Same Thing
Seemed
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Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.
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Score
Work Out
Work Money Great
Making Movies
Reassure
Test
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For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.
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Select
Life Best Me
Life Best Always
Describe
Evolving
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To me, regardless of who's in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government's priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I'm sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.
Andrew Dominik / Film Director
Healthcare
Priorities
Dictated
Insurance
Lobby
Regardless
Strangled
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I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.
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Acceptable
American Film
Concerned
Crime
Genre
Motivated
Perfectly
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