Movies Quotes
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Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
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When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Movies are too literal.
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I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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A lot of times, movies that are in the top 10 lists or maybe even win Baftas or Oscars, you then watch them a year later and you go, 'Maybe it wasn't so great.'
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
