Movie Quotes
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I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.
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When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.
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I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.
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I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the book you're just ticking off boxes. I think that after you see the movie, reading the book is a cool thing. I always say the movie's not meant to replace the book. That's ridiculous. I'm a huge fan of the book.
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'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.
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Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
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I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.
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I think before 'Saw' came along, there really wasn't a movie franchise that actually went out there and said, 'We're going to come out with one every year during Halloween and make that our trademark.'
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
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I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is completely insane.
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I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.
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I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.
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I do think 'The Notebook' is a darn good movie.
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And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.
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I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.
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I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.
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When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there's a parallax issue, and there's an issue of editing; you can't edit very quickly in 3-D because the eye won't adjust fast enough for it.
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Sometimes I go to the cinema and I see a movie where the directors or the filmmakers are telling me what to think, what to feel. They are giving me all the answers, and I'm like, "What am I doing here?" I try to have an active audience that are thinking and feeling for themselves.
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I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.
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I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.
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Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read more about Mary Poppins.
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If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.
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I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.
