Andrew Dominik Quotes

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Anything that’s memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they’re being asked to be experts. They just compare the film they finished watching to all of the other films that they’ve seen.

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I actually don’t like westerns much. I like good westerns, but it isn’t my preferred genre. There are all kinds of westerns: acid westerns, ’70s westerns, Nicholas Ray‘s neurotic westerns. The ones I tend to like are nutso westerns.

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Once you do something violent in a film, you don’t have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I’m saying?

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I read books all the time. I’m just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don’t put a book down just because I don’t see a movie in it, either.

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Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

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Actors have either got to play something that’s close to them, or something that’s the complete opposite.

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Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It’s a process.

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I write a number of screenplays, and I’ve never really come up with a part for a movie star.

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Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there’s a lot of money involved in making movies, and it’s a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it’s also a way to work out how to market a movie.

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I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn’t even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.

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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.

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America‘s moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it’s become a nation of middlemen.

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It seems like women don’t want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don’t want what they say they want. It’s very weird.

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To me, regardless of who’s in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government’s priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I’m sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.

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Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

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Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director‘s not an idiot, they’re going to sign up and do some acting.

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When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it’s a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.

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Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn’t have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

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Crime is a job and it’s boring. It’s also unpleasant.

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Sometimes you do complete run-throughs of scenes, sometimes you break scenes down into little bits. It just depends on what the actors like to do. It’s almost like jamming.

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Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it’s an actor putting in a performance. Someone said ‘cut‘ and they’re back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

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When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it’s always tangled and political.

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