I always like to tell this story: I was fucking Christian Bale, Batman, up the arse on a rooftop in King’s Cross and the crew was filming from another rooftop on the adjacent building. I hadn’t done gay penetrative sex, this was my first shot at it, so I’m standing behind Christian’s big naked back, going, “Wow, this is so… Peculiar.” So I start, you know, pumping away slowly and I start to go more like a bunny rabbit, then like a Jack Russell. And I put my head to the side of his head, away from the camera, and I say, “I’m sure I’d have come by now. I’m going to have a look,” and I glanced back and I saw the crew packing up and walking away! I think Todd [Haynes] had been so respectful of us that he hadn’t wanted to interrupt us by saying, “Cut”… Or we didn’t hear “Cut”. It was very funny. Christian’s never written to me… He never phones any more… It’s really upsetting.

Ewan McGregor on his experience in Velvet Goldmine (x)

#ewan should get a lifetime achievement oscar for existing  

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January 23, 2011
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#quote #ewan mcgregor
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick (via fuckyeahdirectors)

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January 15, 2011
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#quote #stanley kubrick
The wizards represent all that the true ‘muggle’ most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!
JK Rowling (via ronaldbweasleyisabamf)

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January 10, 2011
#quote #jk rowling

You have to be stubborn. You have to believe. You have to build up. Create an energy that makes the movie attractive to people, make people fight for it and believe in it as much as you. I think film is a collaboration. You have to humble yourself to that collaboration. I think at least me, with my style of filmmaking. A lot is said of the idea of independent film, how you make an independent film. I’m very dependent. I’m not an independent filmmaker, I’m a dependent filmmaker. I need people.

If you’re going to make a film, get people to believe in it. Bring people around and make them get to a place where they love the film more than you do. Where they’ll fight for it and that’s exactly what started happening in Blue Valentine over those twelve years of venturing. I had people that it was as much their film as it was my film. Be dependent. Be dependent on other people.

Derek Cianfrance on his independent film Blue Valentine (via)

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January 07, 2011
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#quote #derek cianfrance
I’ve recently stopped giving a shit what anyone thinks, and I gotta tell you, I feel great.
Weeds (via getdowntown)

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January 06, 2011
#quote #weeds
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you’re following your passion.
Darren Aronofsky (via fuckyeahdirectors)

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January 01, 2011
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#quote #darren aronofsky
Now I want you to listen to me closely. You’re not a bad person. You’re a very good person, who bad things have happened to. Do you understand? Besides, the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We have all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the power we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
Sirius Black,
Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix. (via princessbydawn)

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December 19, 2010
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#quote #harry potter
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
Paul McCartney (via sstonem)

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December 18, 2010
#quote #paul mccartney
There’s a difference between being in a bra and underpants as an object on a men’s-magazine cover and playing yourself—a woman with desires and needs who loves and laughs with her friends—in a bra and underpants. You become an object if you simply put it out there. Most movies are made by men, it’s totally natural that they’re going to present their worldview, so we’re trying to find more women who are writers and directors who are expressing their worldview. Did you see Tiny Furniture? Lena Dunham wrote, directed, and starred in it; she’s 23, and it is just amazing. She walks around in her underwear for the whole movie; it’s harsh. She’s the subject, she’s not the object, and it’s beautiful—that’s the kind of thing we need more of.
Natalie Portman (via feministfilm)

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December 16, 2010
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#quote #natalie portman
When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
Elton, Love and Monsters, Doctor Who (via -allons-y-)

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December 11, 2010
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#quote #doctor who