Mary Astor Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'
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I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.
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People care about performance and results above all else.
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
