Movie Quotes
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The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
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Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.
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I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.
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It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.
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In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
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Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.
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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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'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
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A sketch is just a mini movie.
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You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
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I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
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I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care.
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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
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There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.
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You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.
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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
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I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.
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I am sure every movie I've made, even as an actor, had multiple test screenings. And I am sure there have been horrible things written about me. But I never have to see them!
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I won't make a movie for money ever again.
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I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
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I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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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One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.
