Pam Grier Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

  Pam Grier

  School, Tuition, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm still trying to do films about black women.

  Pam Grier

  Black, Trying, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

  Pam Grier

  People, Gains, Film

• Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Yes You Can, Icons

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

  Pam Grier

  Serious, Kind, Film

• We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

  Pam Grier

  Special, Violence, Action

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

  Pam Grier

  People, Different, Film

• I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of your skin." I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells. Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell. Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Special, Skins

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I like to do all kinds of films.

  Pam Grier

  Kind, Film, All Kinds

• I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.

  Pam Grier

  Believe, Goal, Directors

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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