Movie Quotes
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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. 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 guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
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You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
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On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.
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Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
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It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
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This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie The Big Short.
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I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.
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I think it's really important to have a life and have interests outside of this movie business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you're really in a dangerous spot.
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I don't think I'm on the studio president's list: 'The movie's going to star Cannavale.' That's not happening.
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We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.
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I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchise. But I never think this way. I think that's the way you break it, if you go, 'then at the end, at the end we'll see you later.' I was forced to do it in 'Clash of the Titans.'
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The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
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I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.
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This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.
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A movie doesn't open the opening weekend and then get burned -- they don't destroy it. It lasts. So what about Raging Bull ? Do you know how much that made opening weekend? No.
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'Tomorrowland' is very much the dream role for me. I've always wanted to do a movie like this. Movies like this aren't made anymore, and it's so cool that I get to be a part of it. I get to do something new and crazy every day, and my character goes through so many different things. I get to do all of it. It's awesome.
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I know a lot of actors picture themselves winning Academy Awards. I really just wanted to do a Christmas movie because it's the kind of movie that I really love to watch. I'm a sucker for the holidays.
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I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.
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'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.
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I don't see a full-fledged career in Hollywood. I am happy with the cameos. Even Tom Cruise will only do special appearances in our films; he wouldn't do a full hero movie. But it's good to act in different cinema.
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I have this set-up at my house where I have one big movie theater screen that's 9 ft. by 16 ft. Then, I have nine 63-inch monitors around it; four on either side and one underneath. So I get all nine one o'clock games, and I can switch them onto the big screen. That's what I do on the Sundays during the season.
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If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.
