Movies Quotes
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I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.
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Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
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We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. Falling in love and marriage is forever. The movies, then TV told us that, even—especially—the commercials.
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You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
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I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.
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I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.
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I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
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I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
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I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
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I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
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Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
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We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.
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Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.
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My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.
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Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
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In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
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I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of that - the stuff that I grew up reading.
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It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.
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Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
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With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.
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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.
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I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years...
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Whenever you anticipate something - like, "it's my highly anticipated whatever" - you are probably going to be disappointed. I wish we could all Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ourselves every time we went to the movies and not know anything about anyone.
