Benh Zeitlin quotes
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“Local casting is just something I love doing.”
-- Benh ZeitlinSource : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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“Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go.”
-- Benh ZeitlinSource : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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“That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.”
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“I always have a backlog of like seven movies that I want to make.”
-- Benh ZeitlinSource : "Behn Zeitlin, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director, Explains Why He Pitched His Film As ‘A League Of Their Own’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.
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“I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.”
-- Benh ZeitlinSource : "Behn Zeitlin, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director, Explains Why He Pitched His Film As ‘A League Of Their Own’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.
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“I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.”
-- Benh ZeitlinSource : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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“Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.”
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“Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”
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“Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.”
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“Local casting is just something I love doing.”
Source : "Beasts of the Southern Wild: 'I didn't expect people to like it'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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“Casting is very, very important.”
Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2010.
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Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 15, 2009.
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