Movies Quotes
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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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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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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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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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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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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My movies are not messed with by the studios.
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Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
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The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.
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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
