Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow -
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
Daniel Craig -
My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
Dan Byrd -
There's nothing more American than movies.
Adam McKay
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove -
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 -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
Uwe Boll
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
A. R. Rahman -
I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
Isaac Hayes -
I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
T. J. Perkins -
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Aaron Eckhart -
I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
Harmony Korine -
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
Uta Hagen
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I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
Olivia Holt -
My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
Cara Delevingne -
When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Madi Diaz -
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.
Evan Thomas -
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie