Movie Quotes
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When you act obnoxious towards people, like on a movie set, they say "we're ready for you" and I say "oh, go to hell, my feet hurt and my head aches." You want to have a margarita for lunch, and people like these little ADs and production assistants are like, "well, he's drinking again."
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Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the fact that a movie is a different thing, and it can't possibly be the same as the book.
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'Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.
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When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.
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I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
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I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.
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I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new 'Jurassic Park' movie for a new generation.
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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I would love a combination of action/adventure and... love. And stories told with heart. I would like people to be invigorated as well as moved. People to see the movie and see that. I love to play, y'know, well-rounded characters.
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I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.
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If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.
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Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
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I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.
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A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.
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Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.
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When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.
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Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.
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Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.
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I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I got a bigger role. Then, in 7th grade, I played Smike in 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and the casting director saw me and asked me to audition for a movie. That movie led to me getting 'Moonrise Kingdom.'
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Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.
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I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, "We're going to do it like Roger Corman did it," as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it's nowhere near the guaranteed moneymaker it might have been 40 years ago. If you look at the way the world works now and money is made, it doesn't seem that fun. Maybe that's just a mental block I have and I need to get over that and find that corner where you can make money and still have a good movie.
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When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.
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Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.
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I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.
