Movie Quotes
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
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I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.
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Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.
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I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.
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The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.
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For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I was working on this movie and the makeup artist was just so ugly! I just wanted to say 'Physician, heal thyself!' She looked exactly like Aaron Neville, and she was trying her hardest to make me look exactly like Aaron Neville. This one time, she leaned into my face with the mascara wand almost touching my eye and she says, 'Whass my name?'
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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I think if you don't feel passionate about the first movie you're doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don't have enough experience to make the movie something special.
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The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie.
