Movies Quotes
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I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.
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The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.
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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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You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
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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 the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
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Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
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I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.
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My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.
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When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or not. I don't think the job of art is to preach, I think it's to ask questions and make people aware of differences and different ways of looking at things. That's what I want to do, anyway. Whether I'm successful or not, that's up to history.
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In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
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I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.
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This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.
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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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Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.
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I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.
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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 feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.
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Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
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You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
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My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.
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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
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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 love Shah Rukh Khan! I have seen many of his movies.
