Movie Quotes
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The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.
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The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
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It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.
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I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.
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When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.
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It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
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Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.
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'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.
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The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.
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The fact that you can see a movie at home, it's great. You're making it for as many people to see it as possible. And that's nice.
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My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.
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I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.
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Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
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What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
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'2001' is a really interesting movie because it came out in 1968, and everybody thought that that was possible, and look how ridiculous that was. We don't have ships like that, and you know, nobody in 1968 was going, 'Oh, that'll never happen!' But of course it never happened. We're not even close to it.
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I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old 'Star Wars.' It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch 'Star Wars.'
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I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.
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When you have three days to work on a scene, you can give all that love to the movie.
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I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.
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We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.
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I'm really just looking for an excuse to get in shape, so if someone could send me a role for a superhero movie, I'll get in shape, then you can just give it to someone else.
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There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's reflected in the scripts they buy and the work that gets made.
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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
