E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie -
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 -
Low budget movies make lots of money.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Dan Byrd -
We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
Zooey Deschanel
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
Zoe Kazan -
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.
Caity Lotz -
I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
Vera Farmiga -
I've never liked rehearsing too much.
J Mascis -
Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
Hansika Motwani -
I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
Abigail Breslin
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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.
Viggo Mortensen -
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 -
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 -
Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
Uwe Boll -
People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
Baltasar Kormakur -
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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I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.
Morgan Freeman -
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Orison Swett Marden -
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
Captain Beefheart -
I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.
Dan Savage -
Movies are too literal.
E. L. Doctorow