Vin Diesel Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

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  Kids, Games, Play

• The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

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  Roles, Film, Brooding

• When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

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  Successful, Want, Firsts

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy" by Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

• My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

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  Writing, Feelings, Trying

  "Vin Diesel Says ‘Fast Five’ is Part of a New ‘Furious’ Trilogy" by Mike Eisenberg, screenrant.com. January 25, 2011.

• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

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  Thinking, Film, Projects

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. June 1, 2004.

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality, you don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

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  Dark, Marijuana, Reality

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

• Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to say, "Oh it's directed by this person - that means everything that person directs is going be wonderful."

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  Mean, Directors, Wonderful

  "Vin Diesel on Vin and Babylon A.D". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. August 28, 2008.

• Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

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  Dream, Night, Hobbies

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

• If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

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  Appreciation, Understanding, Dresses

• I'm a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.

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  Guy, Together, Elements

  Source: ellisbenus.com

• I've directed independent film.

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  Independent, Film, Independent Film

  "Vin Diesel Interview - Fast and Furious". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 25, 2009.

• I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

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  Would Be, Fiction, Film

  "Vin Diesel Talks RIDDICK, Balancing His Producer and Actor Roles, Making Good on Promises, HANNIBAL THE CONQUEROR, Future of Cinema, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

• I never think of people's nationality too much. I always look at everybody the same. It's impossible for me to just say one group of people over separate groups of people. Maybe it's because I was raised in New York City which is this melting pot. Everybody was always the same and the whole point of my whole film existence was to say that we're just one race.

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  New York, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

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  Years, Skills, Firsts

• I don't know when the last time was that Steven Spielberg or George Lucas made a movie with Universal, but I can tell you that Universal is leading the charge. They're looking at film differently. They're planning ahead in a way that I've never seen a studio do before. They're believing in a relationship between fan and film franchise, in a new way. They're more receptive to an audience, in part because of social media, in a way we've never been allowed.

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  Believe, Media, Planning Ahead

  "Vin Diesel Talks RIDDICK, Balancing His Producer and Actor Roles, Making Good on Promises, HANNIBAL THE CONQUEROR, Future of Cinema, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

• That's what I love. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

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  Thinking, Film, Projects

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. June 1, 2004.

• I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

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  People, Shining, Effort

  "Strays - Vin Diesel interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

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  Revenge, Dirty, Loss

• I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get hurt, and you never want anyone to be hurt on a film, let alone you being responsible. The great thing about working with guys who have spent their life choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they do. That's their specialty. Their specialty is selling taking hits. Their specialty is selling explosive hits without making a contact or doing too much damage.

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  Hurt, Wrestling, Fighting

  "Vin Diesel Interview, Riddick". www.moviesonline.ca. November 23, 2017.

• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

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  Mother, Book, Car

• To have a director that loves his actors is something that you can see in the film and in the fruits of that labor. You can see that translated in the film. When you watch this movie, you can see a director who loves his actors, and it shines through the movie, in my eyes.

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  Eye, Shining, Fruit

  "Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Benicio Del Toro, Vin Diesel and James Gunn Talk GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 28, 2014.

• I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York.

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  New York, Years, Acting

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