Ethan Hawke Quotes

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

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• People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

  

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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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• I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

  

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• Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.

  

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• Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
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• Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

  

  Patrick Lussier
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• It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

  

  Zack Snyder
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• Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

  

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• I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.

  

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• I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

  

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• I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

  

  Rita Ora
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• It's hard for me to sit still. Now if you'll sit me in front of a great old movie, I'll sit still, because I love that, too.

  

  Patty Loveless
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• Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

  

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• 'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie!

  

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• I've seen almost all of Rajinikanth sir's movies, at least the ones that have come to Mumbai, since I don't understand Tamil. I loved him in the movie 'Hum' as well.

  

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• It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

  

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• The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

  

  Ethan Hawke
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  • Horror
  • Message