Movies Quotes
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You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.
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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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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.
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Luckily, it's one of my favorite movies [Night Of The Living Dead]. I never get tired of watching it.
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My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.
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I always related my favorite music to the movies.
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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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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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I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
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When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.
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I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.
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Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.
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After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.
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I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
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In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.
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You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.
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On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
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That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.
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I make more movies than I see.
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All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
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Movies are an editor's medium.
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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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I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin or the politics that you had or the place that you come from, but from a point of view of an understanding of human nature, an understanding of history, and an understanding of what motivates people.
