Sam Mendes Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
Ingvar Kamprad -
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
Zooey Deschanel -
It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
Magnus Scheving -
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
Daniel Craig -
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
Rachel McAdams
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
Kate Micucci -
I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
Abigail Breslin -
Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
Viggo Mortensen -
Movies are too literal.
E. L. Doctorow -
Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
Dakota Johnson -
The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
Olivia Munn
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
Mackenzie Foy -
Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
Dan Lipinski -
When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
Damien Chazelle -
I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
Larry Bishop -
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
Earl Wilson -
I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
Damien Chazelle
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Labor is sweet, for Thou hast toiled,And care is light, for Thou hast cared;Let not our works with self be soiled,Nor in unsimple ways ensnared.Through life's long day and death's dark night,O gentle Jesus! be our light.
Frederick William Faber -
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Gabriel Marcel -
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead -
Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.
Kabir Sehgal -
I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
Edward Abbey -
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
Sam Mendes