Amy Seimetz Quotes

#1. I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.

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#2. I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.

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#3. I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

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#4. I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.

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#5. I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

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#6. If you're constantly moving, you can get in a monotony that's just as equally boring as sitting still for a long period of time.

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#7. I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.

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#8. I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.

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#9. I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.

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#10. I never knew where I was going to end up when I started film. I didn't start film to be famous. Of course, it's a public medium, and of course we chose a public medium because we like people to pay attention to the work that we're doing. But I didn't know what I was going to end up.

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#11. Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

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