Fairuza Balk: Self - Actress
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Quotes
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Fairuza Balk : What people choose to do in the name of politics, which means in the name of money - there are no morals. There is no integrity at all. They'd sell their child down the river for money.
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Richard Stanley : I think we managed to live the dream for a surprising amount of time.
Fairuza Balk : None of us had any idea what... what ended up... what was coming.
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Tim Sullivan : The buzz is just, you know, you walk through the hall and just hear, "Did you hear about... oh my god! Richard Stanley climbed into a tree today and wouldn't come down!"
Fairuza Balk : What? This was... wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Back the gravy train up! When did he supposedly climb this tree and not come down?
[told off camera]
Fairuza Balk : At the end of the shooting day! He- he climbed a tree and wouldn't come down? After shooting a long shoot day and needing to get up and 5 am to shoot the next day? "No, I'm gonna stay in a tree." That's insane!
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Fairuza Balk : My representation said, "You'll never work again. Not only will they sue you and garnish your wages for the next twenty years, but they will ensure that you don't work ever again in this industry and, um, they'll tarnish your name. They'll destroy your reputation, you know, because you're not allowed to just walk on a multi-million-dollar picture." You know, it wasn't just what happened to Richard. That was the beginning of the nightmare.
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Fairuza Balk : They said I had to come to dinner and that our director, our new director, was here. And this older gentleman in, you know, "director gear" with this jungle hat on came into the restaurant.
Marco Hofschneider : And at one point, during the dinner, I actually ask him, "What's your take on this story? Certain vision?" And he's like "Ah, Marco! Vision! That's an overused word, I'm telling you. It's not about a vision. I'm trying to tell a story here, okay?" "I mean, yeah, but what... is... you gonna tell this story?" "Ah, we're gonna see! I brought in my own writer!" So, I'm like, "Okay, it's gonna be a different movie, I guess now."
Fairuza Balk : Initially he said, "Listen, I'm- I've just been brought in. I don't know what's going on. I'm just a director. I'm here to try to do a job. I need all the help I can get from you. You know, just be on my side, and we'll get through this type of thing." Um... within three or four days, that had changed to name-calling, and it changed to being screamed at. This man hated my guts.
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Graham Humphreys : He's really, really one of the last old-school screamers. You know, he would bark out his orders, and he was just this rough, tough guy. And you could imitate him!
Peter Elliott : [imitating John Frankenheimer] "Things are gonna change 'round here!"
Fairuza Balk : [imitating John Frankenheimer] "Alright, I need a man there on camera one!" And, you know, "Camera two, you better be ready to catch that any second!"
Marco Hofschneider : [imitating John Frankenheimer] "And you gotta throw the charge and the whole thing goes up into flames!"
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Fairuza Balk : [about working with Marlon Brando] This one day, I said, "Can we talk?" And he said "What is it, dear?" And I said, "I don't know, just, um... in terms of our characters and how they relate, I'd love to have some time to do that." And he said, "No. This is all insane. I'm getting paid, you're getting paid. None of the scripts make any sense, so why worry? You know, just relax. Do what you're doing, you're beautiful! Don't worry about it." And I said, "But... how the characters relate, isn't there-"
[whispering]
Fairuza Balk : "Nah. I didn't read the script!"
