Movie Quotes
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It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.
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'Session 9' can be interpreted in different ways. You can get the sense that Gordon breathes in an evil spirit but can also be read as a much more clinical movie that shows a man who becomes unhinged or may be going mad. An inspiration was Nicolas Roeg's 'Don't Look Now.'
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I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.
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I'm a trailer junkie. I love watching movie trailers as soon as they go up.
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I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
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'Cloverfield' and 'REC' are great examples of movies that took kind of tired genres, the monster movie and the zombie film, and by filming them in found footage, it was a new perspective. It gives you a whole new take and helps you re-experience that all over again.
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Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
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Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.
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After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'
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Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.
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I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
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At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.
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My kids completely understand that I may be on a huge show or in a big movie, but most of the time, they are not terribly impressed.
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When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
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We make a lot of movies that I don't think merit a wide release. We have this label called Tilt, and we have the movies come out on that, and that's fine. But it shocks me when, having done this a few times, when I really believe a movie should get a wide release, and I struggle to get it released. That does surprise me.
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In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.
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A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.
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It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].
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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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I knew that we would have a movie about us one day.
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Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.
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Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.
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Paris, Texas is the first film that I've totally cared about, the first movie I totally wanted to do - and that after 27 years that I considered my prison term.
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'Sicario' is about how the Western world reacts toward problems outside of its borders. Should we become monsters in order to fight the monsters? It's not about the cartels. The movie could have been set in Africa or the Middle East.
