Szoboszlai Dominik Quotes

I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things. ~ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star. ~ Andrew Dominik

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process. ~ Andrew Dominik

Beauty draws many eyes, agreed the storytellers. Some of them unkind."

"The Briar and the Rose by Marjorie Liu ~ Dominik Parisien

I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head. ~ Dominik Hasek

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony. ~ Andrew Dominik

Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come. ~ Mark Dominik

I try to have fun. Sometimes I have more fun, sometimes I have less fun. But overall I still believe that this team can do it without me and when I'll be ready, I'll be ready. ~ Dominik Hasek

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it. ~ Andrew Dominik

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting. ~ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people. ~ Andrew Dominik

I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that. ~ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot. ~ Andrew Dominik

I love acting. I take it day by day. I would really love to produce my own stuff and other stuff. ~ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it. ~ Brad Pitt

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow. ~ Andrew Dominik

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

I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy. ~ Andrew Dominik

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? ~ Andrew Dominik

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

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 portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money. ~ Andrew Dominik

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

To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do. ~ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

Ndamukong Suh is the best player in this generation to hit free agency since Reggie White. ~ Mark Dominik

I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid. ~ Andrew Dominik

Only Dunlop has seen more rubber than I have ~ Dominik Hasek

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. ~ Andrew Dominik

The crime film is the most honest American film. ~ Andrew Dominik

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 when I make a film. ~ Andrew Dominik

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. ~ Andrew Dominik

In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence. ~ Andrew Dominik

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. ~ Andrew Dominik

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work. ~ Andrew Dominik

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. ~ Andrew Dominik

America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen. ~ Andrew Dominik

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things. ~ Andrew Dominik

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. ~ Andrew Dominik

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite. ~ Andrew Dominik

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song. ~ Andrew Dominik

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. ~ Andrew Dominik