Andrew Dominik quotes
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“I always feel that crime films are about capitalism,”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.
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“The crime film is the most honest American film.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.
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“Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : Source: collider.com
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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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Cannes: Andrew Dominik On The Violence, Politics & Look Of ‘Killing Them Softly’ With Brad Pitt". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.indiewire.com. May 24, 2012.
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“Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.”
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“I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.”
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“The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
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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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“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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
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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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
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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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
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“It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
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“You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : Source: collider.com
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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.”
-- Andrew DominikSource : "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
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