Film Quotes by Holly Hunter

14 Film quotes by Holly Hunter

Holly Hunter shares a modest collection of fourteen lines that hint at how she experiences film—from performance to direction. It’s a concise, intimate look at what moves her in the world of movies.

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I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.

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My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.

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Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

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It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

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Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

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Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be…

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Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never…

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I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so…

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The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money…

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It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your…

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In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a…

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Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So…

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Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work.…

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I got a horror film, 'The Burning,' and suddenly I was making crazy money, like a thousand a week, so I moved…

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Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

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In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they…

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I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated…

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The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

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It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

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I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose…

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Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were…

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I don't mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it's gonna give me something new to mess around in my…

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Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality…

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I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me.…

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Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

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It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

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I think that my looks through the years have served me well because I was never a great beauty and I was never cast…

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I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a…

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I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.

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