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Ana Lily Amirpour

Ana Lily Amirpour is an English film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. She is best known for her feature film debut A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a self-described "Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western" that made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, and which was based on a previous short film that she wrote and directed, which won Best Short Film at the 2012 Noor Iranian Film Festival.

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I believe that every character I create is in their own film, that happens to overlap with the main film. There are complete and real characters, even though we only spend only a little time with them. In the approach to what those entities are, that always appeals to an actor. What are they, since they are going to embody this character?

Approach, Believe, Character, Embody, Overlap, Real

I'm trying to figure out a way to find comfort in my life as a human. I'm trying to be good at being a human being. You get chopped up. Someone breaks your heart, you lose your job, you get disappointed, someone dies in your family. Life chops you up, and you have to go on.

Heart, Trying, Comfort, Figure, Good

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.

Becomes, Dna, Known, Level, Star, Thing

There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.

Thinking, Actually, Thing, Stops, Categorization

As an artist, and for me personally, my biggest fear is categorization. I hate the idea that I would become someone who says that "this is what I do and now that's what I am. " What I really feel like is an explorer. I want to continue exploring my brain cave and see what's there, you know? And I don't want to just stay in one cave.

Hate, Artist, Brain, Idea, Continue, Fear

Whenever you anticipate something - like, "it's my highly anticipated whatever" - you are probably going to be disappointed. I wish we could all Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ourselves every time we went to the movies and not know anything about anyone.

Sunshine, Mind, Wish, Disappointed, Anticipate, Eternal

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

Modern, Stillness, Modern Society, Way, Keep

The history and baggage of certain actors and characters - it goes into the movie and becomes part of it. If Keanu Reeves wasn't Keanu with all the things that make him Keanu, it wouldn't be the same for him to come in and become his Bad Batch character The Dream. It's kind of meta or next-level interesting for me.

Actors, Bad, Character, Characters, Dream, Interesting

Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.

Atmosphere, Brave New World, Character, Develop, Side, Simply

I only noticed this after I had finished the film 'The Bad Batch,' and watched it again a few months later. . . Arlen, main character, is kind of like a shark because she keeps on moving forward. I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive.

Moving, Character, Kind, Noticed, Keeps, Shark

I don't personally do that many castings. But I did get involved in "The Bad Batch," because we couldn't think of an actress that was a 3-D embodiment of the character. But when I saw Suki Waterhouse on tape, I knew she was 'it. ' And I can't describe that any more than to say that I never had to really express to her the the ideas that were on the page, she just instinctively embraced it. She was Arlen, and I didn't want to f**k it up. Her instinct was just it.

Bad, Castings, Character, Instinct, Instinctively, Thinking

Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.

People, Music Is, Happy, Music, Meters

When I came up with the concept of 'The Dream,' on the surface he just seemed like another creepy bad man or villain. It had to be played by someone larger than life, but not malicious. And Keanu Reeves is that person to me, and he was The Dream like I wanted The Dream.

Dream, Men, Creepy, Man, Concept