Alexandre Aja Quotes

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • First
  • Made

• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Different
  • Money

• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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  • Star
  • Need

• Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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  • Me
  • Always

• It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Wife

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Movie
  • Proud

• Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

  

  Gary Ross
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  • Pretty
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• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
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  • Done
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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movie
  • City
  • Moments

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
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• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Love
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  • Way

• I always wanted to do a Disney movie.

  

  Patrick Warburton
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  • Always
  • Wanted

• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Myself

• When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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  • You

• Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.

  

  Christopher Walken
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  • Annoying

• I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Prove
  • Pictures

• I'm very easily influenced, and I'm also a quick study, so I think when I decided I wanted to write pop songs, I literally just listened to pop radio for six months to get a feel for it and understand it.

  

  Sia LSD
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• He who talks much cannot talk well.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
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• Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

  

  Beryl Bainbridge
  • Children
  • Shoes
  • Blisters

• Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

  

  Alexandre Aja
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