I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
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I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.Jim Jarmusch
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
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So if too many people like my films, I might get scared and think I did something wrong. Honestly.
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To go back to it was just too painful, so I pulled the plug on it, ... Bill was disconcerted because he liked that story. I said, But Bill, I've got this other idea,' which was Broken Flowers . And I told him what I had, and he said, Well, do you want to do that one instead' I said, I do. I'd love to.' And he said, Yeah, let's do that.' With Bill, he'll give you his word, and that's all you need.
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I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
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