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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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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Movies are romantic fantasies.
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Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don’t think. I think he’s useless you can quote me on that.
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
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What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.
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Movies are too literal.
