Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

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  Growing Up, Father, Artist

• When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

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  Growing Up, Father, Directors

  "Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Talk THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, THE DEPARTED, THE AVIATOR, GANGS OF NEW YORK, Jack Nicholson, and Much More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 9, 2014.

• It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.'

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  Pain, Thinking, Forever

• We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

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  Hands, Done, Film

• [Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.

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  Honesty, Character, Thank God

  "Revolutionary Road : Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

• You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

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  Faces, Film, Your Face

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Long

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

• From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.

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  Commitment, Perspective, Acting

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

• I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

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  People, Way, Opinion

  "Leonardo DiCaprio: Kissing a man in J Edgar film was all in a day's work". www.mirror.co.uk. January 17, 2012.

• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

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  Mean, Thinking, Two

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

• These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.

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  Character, Mean, Dark

  "INCEPTION Press Conference Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Emma Thomas". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 12, 2010.

• If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

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  Powerful, Tools, World

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

• The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

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  Character, Directors, Looks

• There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

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  Thinking, Play, Ideas

  "Blood Diamond - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

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  Thinking, Political, May

  "The Star of Africa". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

• I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say: OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles. Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be.

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  Hero, Trying, Adults

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 20, 2002.

• It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.

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  Giving, Vices, Who You Know

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