Movies Quotes
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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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.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
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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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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
