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People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch. (Allard J)
Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out. (Allard J)
Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing. (Allard J)
When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks. (Allard J)
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry. (Allard J)
“Drew Carey's Green Screen Show.” (Allard J)
“The Drew Carey Show.” (Allard J)
A lot of films come out before they're finished. (Allard J)
I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time. (Allard J)
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. (Allard J)
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. (Allard J)
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. (Allard J)
It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle. (Allard J)
Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice. (Allard J)
The film follows very much in the tradition of social realism, because I wanted to see a subject like this tackled with honesty. (Allard J)
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. (Allard J)
“I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.” (Allard J)
“Mice And Men was only the third movie I had acted in and since then I've done more television and bigger, more demanding roles.” (Allard J)
“You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.” (Allard J)
“Pirates of the Caribbean.” (Allard J)
“I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.” (Allard J)
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