Movies Quotes
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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It's a masterpiece [The Exorcist]. This is an honor. I know you may not think so, but it really is. How many movies in our lifetime? This is an honor.
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
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The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
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Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.
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I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
