Jon Landau Quotes
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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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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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.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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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.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
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Your basic problem is emotional immaturity. You want life to be like in the movies, full of excitement. That's how a child's mind works, but the adults accept regularity, tedium, frustration.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical factors that came together: the creation of HTML by Tim Berners-Lee, the drop in the price of communications, and all the PCs out there that you could put this software into.
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Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.
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It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
