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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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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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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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.
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Movies are too literal.
