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August Quote by Anna Boden

“With 'Half Nelson,' we went to Sundance and then we just bam, bam, bam, festival, festival, festival, festival and then we released in August.” quote by Anna Boden — Download Open image

“With 'Half Nelson,' we went to Sundance and then we just bam, bam, bam, festival, festival, festival, festival and then we released in August.”

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Especially as an independent director, when you're writing something on spec and you're trying to get it sold, you create this entire world in…

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I think the most valuable thing that we've done at festivals is meet other filmmakers.

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I'm a very superstitious person. I come from a long line of superstitious people, so it's not going anywhere. For instance, we have this…

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We can always connect with all of our characters on a human level, but a lot of them took a lot of observation and…

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You want the character to keep being able to grow through the process of writing, through the process of filming, and editing, you want…

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When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about…

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I feel like directorial teams aren't quite as uncommon in documentary.

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There are studios out there and we have met them who take the movie away from the filmmaker and don't want them to have…

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I think I was 10 when I saw my first R-rated movie, 'Stand by Me,' in the theater.

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We have nothing against working with actors.

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We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on the script…

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We weren't big 'Notebook' fans or anything.

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On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the…

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Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

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I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German translations, and I did everything to make the best English translation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie I could. And then, there I went. "Oh! I think she's thinking this, but I think she should say it!"…

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for…

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I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her…

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August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.

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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

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It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

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How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August…

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It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

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I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

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There could be oil coming up until August.

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