American - Actress | June 23, 1957 -
I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I am an ordinary person.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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