Movie Quotes
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It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
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I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.
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'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.
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I can't just watch a horror movie and leave it at that. The scary parts just stick with me. It kind of infiltrates my brain and sometimes I can't sleep at night, so usually I don't go and voluntarily watch one.
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Goldie Hawn was my movie-star crush when I was young.
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There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.
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A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way
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Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
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Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
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There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
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We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going to be a great movie.' I meet with all the actors two weeks before, and I ask them, 'What lines don't work? What is uncomfortable for you? What jokes do you think aren't good? If you're not getting it, here's what the joke is.' You fix it.
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I love the work that goes into making a movie and creating a different world. It is a wholesome experience.
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I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
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Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.
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We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
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The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they're the only stories being told, then it makes Americans of African descent - it puts them into that victim category. And that was my problem with the movie.
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I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.
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I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.
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I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.
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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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If I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.
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When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
