Scott Porter Quotes
The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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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 sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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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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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
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I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
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I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.
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I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.
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I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.'
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.
