Film Quotes by Cate Blanchett

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

— Cate Blanchett

Every director works differently.

— Cate Blanchett

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

— Cate Blanchett

I'm from Australia, where the film industry is potent but small.

— Cate Blanchett

I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.

— Cate Blanchett

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

— Cate Blanchett

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

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I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be…

— Cate Blanchett

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

— Cate Blanchett

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

— Cate Blanchett

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

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I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.

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And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at…

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I use the Philip Kingsley range of shampoos, and they've got a great elasticiser, which is fantastic. I wrap my hair in…

— Cate Blanchett

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged,…

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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that…

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I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at…

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Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me…

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I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from…

— Cate Blanchett

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype…

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With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first…

— Cate Blanchett

I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because…

— Cate Blanchett

It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has…

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I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought…

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The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of…

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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found…

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We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,…

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Film just chews up actors like nobody's business, and I'm not particularly interested in being chewed up. I think the camera can…

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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

— Cate Blanchett

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'

— Cate Blanchett

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to…

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The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're…

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I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor…

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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to…

— Cate Blanchett

For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, as I…

— Cate Blanchett

What I love about the theater is that you know who you're acting for: your audience. And the thing I find really…

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A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever…

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I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd…

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That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was…

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