Quotes by Madeleine Stowe - Page 1

After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Kids
Alive
Happy To Be Alive
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Pranksters
Trustworthy
Wonderful
Daniel
Partner
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Decision
Cast
Michael
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Marriage
Dialogue
Excluded
Finals
Proposal
Shot
Michael
Edit
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Being There
Injured
Treacherous
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Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Fields
Forests
Location
Colors
Michael
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Charming
Michael
Grin
Pleased
Rehearsals
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Actors
Needs
People
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Admitting
Cameras
Scene
Attempted
Michael
Fort
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
British
Dialect
Accent
Brought
Coach
Correct
Michael
Helped
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As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Awkward
Complicated
Leaving
Tension
Camp
Filming
Maybe
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In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Action
Fed Up
Pieces
Scripts
Action Film
Period
Dressed
Fed
Initially
Pictures
Piece
Script
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Disease
Effort
Saving
Shed
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Great Love
Seasons
Life Love Time
Begin
Project
Passage
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I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Dear
Profile
Respectful
Nearly
Daniel
Finding
Giggles
Speaking
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Cold
Department
Electric
Scene
Weather
Turning
Cave
Dante
Stayed
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Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Drama
Honestly
Minutes
Work Music Always
Work Music Me
Rare
Channel
Effectively
Fascinate
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Morning
Believe
Events
Extraordinary
Laughter
Daily
Fits
Shoot
Mornings
Trailer
Wildest
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Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Cameras
Concentration
Difficulty
Rolling
Tension
Lift
Silliest
Spirits
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Affection
Blunt
Character
Sat
Stupid
Talking
Vision
Began
Desk
Michael
Fellow
Great Deal
Opened
Seemed
Whom
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Experience
Feelings
Gentleman
Rely
Sensitive
Michael
Extremely
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I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Daughter
Mother
Nostalgia
One Day
Remember Day One Day
Locations
Returned
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Firsts
Kiss Me
Kissing
Peculiar
Scene
Spite
Attempted
Forced
Fort
Spot
Right Away
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Disturbing
July
Pressure
Time Great Me
Time Great Look
Alter
Version
Michael
Great Deal
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Eclectic
Eclectic Style
Inspiration
Tape
Thinking
Uniqueness
Michael
Sources
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Crew
Impossible
Lovely
Cast
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Environment
Involved
Method
Two Weeks
Became
Weeks
Filming
Directly
Michael
Expect
Happier
None
Occurrence
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Anxious
Hair
Issues
Real
Scene
Hairdo
Issue
Lock
Quietly
Real Issue
Sometime
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Home
Alleviate
Faster
Fellows
Frost
Impossible
Long
Provoked
Race
Series
Began
Competitions
Daniel
Driver
Highway
Long Series
Tensions
Thus
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Months
Worn
Exactly
Exactly What
Studio
Reaction
Released
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Beautiful
Lines
Read Between The Lines
Ready
Support
Daniel
Michael
Fully
Joe
Quietly
Studio
Roth
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Humor
Character
Evolve
Eye
Members
Rescue
Sense Of Humor
Wicked
Watched
Cast
Genuinely
Russell
Steve
Wicked Sense
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A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets. - on the link between movies and school violence.
Madeleine Stowe / Actress
Running
Ostriches
School
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