Quotes by Andrew Dominik

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Andrew Dominik is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film Chopper, the Western drama film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and the neo-noir crime film Killing Them Softly.
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Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

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For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage wh...

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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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I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portra...

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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...

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I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

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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 ma...

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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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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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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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There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.

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I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

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A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

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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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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 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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Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

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

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Dominik
  • DescriptionAustralian film director
  • BornOctober 7, 1967
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter