Tommy Wiseau

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As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.
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I'm not a god, I'm just a simple guy.
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I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'
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When I was a little kid, I wanted to be, like, you know, a movie star, you know? Or, I always have interest in movie, you know? Because I like the visual aspect of the movies, et cetera.
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Express yourself, don't hurt yourself.
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As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.
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'The Room' is relationships. The room is you and me and everyone in America. That's basically what 'The Room' is.
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You cannot have the drama without comedy.
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All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.
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We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.
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I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.
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I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
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My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
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I am pro-freedom.
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I inspire myself.
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When I was little kid, I used to want to be a rock star.
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I'm going to do more movies and travel.
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As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.
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When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.
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I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.
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I'm not here to criticize anyone.
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I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.
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I want to be always actor.
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I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.
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I like vampires.
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My take on it, like a filmmaker or actor, is if you have much more colors within your creation, eventually people will appreciate what you're doing, and the other stuff is secondary, like critiques or even awards or anything else, as long as people enjoy it.
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If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.
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You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don’t hurt each other!
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Collection: Hurt
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In America we have across the country, the entire world.
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Collection: Country
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Love is very complex. If a lot of people love each other, the world will be a better place to live. Actually, that's a sentence from my script. Love is also full of electricity - if you do not feel the electricity within your body, then it's not love.
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Collection: Love Is
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Let's face it: people don't have respect for other people. That's the story here. When everyone is respected, then we can all live within magic.
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Collection: People
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I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.
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Collection: Nice
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Think about who you are. Think about how nice you can be to another person. By the same token then, to have your own opinion about life, you as an individual, with respect. But I think that's what the key to success is.
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The room is a special place. It's not "A room" it's THE room. It's a place where there is no restriction. If we title it "a room" it can be any room but it's THE room so it is a special place. We all have this place. It's like our little corner that you are comfortable with.
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You know what they say - love is blind.
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I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.
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I have been doing this for eight years now so the negative things do not effect me as much as they did at the beginning.
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Collection: Eight
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I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.
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Collection: Rocks
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I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.
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Collection: Thinking
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The emotion, and the other aspect is that this relate to many different obstacle in life. Emotion, yes, I love emotion, for your information, very much so.
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I'm very strong in who I am, I'm very happy where I am. And wherever, as you know some people go overboard with criticism, but you know what? I would say look in your mirror, and see who you are, and what did you do.
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Collection: Strong
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People bring flowers and that's pretty memorable. I actually got a rose from one girl. She was so beautiful! I love all the screenings to be honest with you. I don't think I have gone to one single bad screening! Even if negative things happen, I turn it into positive reaction.
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I personally think that all the scene that you see, love scene, is pretty real, almost 100 percent.
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I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.
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Collection: Hurt
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For many years I wanted to be a rock star but of course that didn't work out. I did however write on napkins and pieces of paper sentences and occurrences. I decided maybe I should write a book because I had been writing so much. I'm actually writing a book based on The Room that will hopefully be published soon.
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Collection: Stars
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Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.
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Collection: Differences
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You know the difference between guys and girls? Usually girls say it's no different whatsoever. But you see, a lot of girls they don't understand that they are better than us guys. If you think about it, they are much more manipulative.
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Collection: Girl
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I really like the Chris-R scene and of course the "you are tearing me apart Lisa" scene. The reason I love the Chris-R scene is because we worked really hard to finish it. It's not just that though, it brings people together. Everyone is one the roof together by the end of the scene. You see the perspectives of the different characters. I feel like with all the connections in this scene that the room connects the entire world
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Collection: Character
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I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.
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As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project. My background are acting, film production, directing, and I studied them for many years. Keep in mind that you need many other skills when you are starting any film project related to real life.
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Collection: Real