I don’t want to play the girlfriend who’s there because she’s the girlfriend. And. That’s. Her. Job. I want to play women and girls who are active and strong and who have a character arc and make decisions and have a rich background.
I went to my first school dance on the set of ‘Spider-Man.’ The funny thing is, it wasn’t actually real. I didn’t choose my dress or my date or anything about it. I just showed up for work.
I have my friends who like me because I’m me and not because I’m in films, and that’s really important to me. They tell me, ‘You look terrible; don’t wear that,’ or ‘That joke wasn’t funny,’ and that’s really important: they keep me grounded.
For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you’re in costume, you’re with the director, it’s so much easier to get in the headspace.
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INCA, 3min., Russia Directed by Michail Lazarev A girl leaves the house at night, sees a beautiful pile of glass, and lies down on it. A brief coming-of-age story set in the ’90s.
JANET DEVIS, 10min,. USA Directed by Brian Gregory Janet Devis is set in a non-specific time and place, blending sci-fi with horror and social commentary. It tells the tale of a telekinetic girl, named Janet Devis, who has been branded a witch and captured by an unknown organisation. She is interrogated, tortured and forceably inducted into an all encompassing programme by computers and machines. It appears that the unseen forces see Janet as a threat to themselves. They aim to control her, understand and obtain her powers for their own usage.
MONKEY ENTERS LANKA, 30min,. China Directed by Saie Surendra The ancient city of Lanka suffers under a tyrant. Concubines are being abducted from all over the world. One special princess disappears and that’s when a legendary folk hero is called for once again, his name, feared throughout the heavens and hells.. the Monkey King.
ALL THAT ROAMS BELOW, 30min., France Directed by Fabien Legeron, Estelle Faye A troubled young man comes back to the island, just an old photograph and adress in his possesion. There, he finds a girl he soon desires. But is she part of his family? Is she a metamorphic creature from the sea? What’s hidden in the basement ? Will the man have to confront his terrible father?
AURORA, 30min., USA Directed by Thomas Negovan, Aaron Sharps The true story of the first documented UFO crash in American history. Written and directed by Thomas Negovan and Aaron Shaps.
THE TREES ARE BLUE, 37min., France Directed by Mélanie Grancourt “You’ll feel better soon ” said the doctor. Meanwhile, it’s the little Aislinn’s entire family which tries to recover from the unspeakable drama.
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BUBBLING SYNAPSES, 4min,. France Directed by William Eguienta An idea… needs space, time & love to grow… But, at what cost? Your friends ? Your wife ? Your kids ? Of course not, it needs to be set aside, in a bubble, waiting for the right moment… The wait is long, too long… This must emerge from its bubble, it must come to life, now !
What motivated you to make this film? I wanted to test 2d animation for the first time. so i was thinking about a subject that doesn’t need speaking characters, but with a strong emotional impact. 48 hours later, the script was written and I was starting working on a storyboard. It’s an impulsive creation, no filter, no overthinking, just pure expression of what’s in mind
What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video? This kind of film is always strange to evaluate. it’s depends a lot on who is the viewer more than an exact message the filmmaker try to spread. I was happy to see that they all catched the poetry behind images and sound to serve the story as an intense experience my film don’t hold the viewer by the hand, and everyone seems to understand subtilities in Bubbling Synapses’ metaphores, that help me to see and confirm ways to communicate emotions visually, so it’s a really important thing to me.
[on winning the Oscar for Best Actor in Gandhi (1982)] If I knew I was going to win, I would not have gone dressed as a waiter.
As an actor, there’s no autonomy, unless you’re prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn’t going to work.
All the great writers root their characters in true human behavior.
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.
[Interviewed on Inside the Actors Studio (1994)] I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, “Fuck it,’ as in, “Fuck it; it’s in God’s hands.”
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
[December 1998] To hell with this stupid show business, this ridiculous showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look back and see a desert wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment. Everything was a fake.
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