Rinko Kikuchi Quotes
When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Movies are too literal.
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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 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 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 love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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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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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.
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I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
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I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
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I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants
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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.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
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'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised that I'm a fighter, or they couldn't believe I'm a professional fighter, but I feel like I'm going to get that for a while. I'm excited to bring a new demographic over to MMA and the UFC.
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When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.
