Adam McKay Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
Samuel L. Jackson -
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.
Magnus Scheving -
I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
Gary Sherman -
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
Daniel Craig -
I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
Parker Posey -
I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
Nancy Meyers
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There's nothing more American than movies.
Adam McKay -
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
Halle Berry -
I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
Abigail Breslin -
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Forest Whitaker
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
Sam Mendes -
I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
Taylor Sheridan -
Movies are too literal.
E. L. Doctorow -
Kleenex would have made a mint today.
Larry Harvey -
Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
Dakota Johnson -
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.
Mackenzie Foy
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My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
Al Pacino -
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
Winona Ryder -
It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
Patrick Macnee -
I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
Adam McKay