Movies Quotes
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We’ve made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.
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I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.
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The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.
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Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is “Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eat dinner.” The entire plot of Before Sunrise is “Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy walk around Vienna.” But the dialogue takes us everywhere, and as Roger Ebert notes, of My Dinner with Andre, these films may be paradoxically among the most visually stimulating in the history of the cinema...
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A filmmaker has to have great vision in order to tell a compelling story that is both distinctive and stylistic. I remember playing all movies in my head hundreds of times before they were ever made. You have to see it in your imagination. It has to be real to you.
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I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
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He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
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Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"
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Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.
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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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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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I'm not sure I like making movies that my kids can't go to, but that's just how it is.
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I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.
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I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.
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A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.
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For me the dream is the freedom to make all the crazy ideas I have in my head into movies. I truly love directing and I think it is a privilege to have this as an occupation.
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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 don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
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I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.
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Movies are an editor's medium.
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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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You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
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Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.
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All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
