Movies Quotes
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When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
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In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
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I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.
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I've been doing this journey in acting and singing since I was six years old, and I definitely think this will take me to the next level - in movies.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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If we're talking about the science fiction or action genres, I've always tried when I could to do them in a way that's not just cookie-cutter - that they bring something fresh or original to it, have some kind of ideas to it. I've been fortunate, in some sense, to do those kinds of movies that are unique.
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Sometimes there could be movies that are neck and neck, and that could tilt the balance.
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To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.
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I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
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I'm a fan of horror movies that have really good stories.
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I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
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The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
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You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
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As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.
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The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, but those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality.
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Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
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We're going to continue to see games turned into movies.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.
