E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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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.
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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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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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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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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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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.
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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.
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One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is contagious.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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Movies are too literal.
