Movie Quotes
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A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.
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For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
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I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.
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My grandmother would take me to the cinema quite a lot. She'd take me with her and sometimes she'd sneak my sister in, and then we'd sometimes just sit and watch the movie again.
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Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.
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I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.
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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
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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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One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.
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The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.
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The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.
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'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.
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There's been one movie star that would not work with me because of my height. I had so many people who had to stand on boxes when they do scenes with me.
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I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
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If you're doing movies on a set... many times, I've shot the end of a movie in the first week of shooting. Because of locations or budgets or actors' availability.
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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
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I'm not a movie star, and I don't want to become a movie star.
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Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
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Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
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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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American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins.
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I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.
