Ernie Pyle Quotes
Instead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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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.
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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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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.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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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.
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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.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh.
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I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
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One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
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Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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I started my career with television, and whatever work I did was keeping the content as my topmost priority. Same goes with the movies: I never grabbed any work!
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Sometimes there could be movies that are neck and neck, and that could tilt the balance.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
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Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.
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Instead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"
