Movies Quotes
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I look at camping the same way I look at horror movies. All the years that humans fought to get into caves and into shelters - it almost seems sacrilegious to go outside and sleep without a roof. We work so hard to have these things!
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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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 like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
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I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
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Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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The first thing I learned about weapons is respect, and that carries into movies as well. If you're on set and you're dealing with weapons, live or not, you respect the weapon; you know how to handle it appropriately.
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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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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
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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.
