Movies Quotes
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
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Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.
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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
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Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'
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I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
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A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
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My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
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For me,it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. Rang De Basanti made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me,a confidence so strong,that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
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People see images now more than they see movies.
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I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.
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In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.
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It's a really common trap to want your life to live up to some standard that you believe in, and then you start to really examine those standards and realize they come not from experiences you've had, but things you've seen in movies, or feelings you've felt listening to pop songs, or ideas you've received from reading books. And not just happy things, but a lot of the time, sad things. It gets kind of depressing, when you see how movies and songs make these promises to us.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
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Elvis was the first rock ‘n’ roll singer I saw because Elvis was the first rock ‘n’ roll singer who did movies.
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I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
