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While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.
Terry Semel
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There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
Shailene Woodley
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For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
Javier Camara
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I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.
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I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.


Dick Cheney
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It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.
Neil Jordan
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Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
Ryan Phillippe
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I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.


Dave Van Ronk
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Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.
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We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.


Hayden Fry
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We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
E. L. Doctorow
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Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.
Michael Haneke
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The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.
Kevin Rose
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
Ed Speleers
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
George Steiner
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'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and middle '80s. 'Tron,' 'The Dark Crystal,' 'The Keep,' 'Labyrinth': none found a large audience.
Richard Corliss
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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus
You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
Vin Diesel
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney
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The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
Sydney Schanberg