Quotes by Martin Donovan - Page 1

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'
Martin Donovan /
Blink
I Am Me Will
Malcolm
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I actually love 'West Side Story.' I think it's an amazing film to watch.
Martin Donovan /
West Side
West Side Story
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I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.
Martin Donovan /
Marty
Scorsese
Love Always Man
Love Man Me
Being A Man
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Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.
Martin Donovan /
Inevitability
Directing
Seemed
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I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.
Martin Donovan /
Endeavor
Success Always Me
Measure
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Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don't.
Martin Donovan /
Depends
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I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.
Martin Donovan /
Mastery
Anytime
Directing
Exert
Fully
Package
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'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.
Martin Donovan /
Post War
Collaborator
Reference
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Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby?
Martin Donovan /
Rationalize
Cheney
Dick Cheney
Tribe
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A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.
Martin Donovan /
Banging
Decades
If I Could
Sanity
Me See Story
Organic
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That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.
Martin Donovan /
Definition
Fullest
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People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the 'Homeland' audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world - and it's their job.
Martin Donovan /
Cia
Homeland
Power World People
Enemies
Large Portion
Suppose
Portion
Viewpoint
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When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?
Martin Donovan /
Catholic
Sparks
Young Age
Anyway
Confronted
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When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.
Martin Donovan /
Downtown
Visibility
Unknown
Cast
Hal
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My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.
Martin Donovan /
Discourse
Performing
Performing Arts
Sense Of Humor
Arts
Both My Parents
Genetically
Great Sense
Vibrant
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I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.
Martin Donovan /
Anticipate
Bad News
Entertainment
Escapism
Indulge
Morbid
Nervous
Silly
Sucker
Surprised
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Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.
Martin Donovan /
Context
Disconnect
Ignore
Selves
We Cannot
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