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		I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Ladd
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Furst
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. G. Ballard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kris Kristofferson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yann Martel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have to be earth necessarily. That's like when people get so wrapped up in the politics of 300 I always go, "By the way, that's a sci-fi movie. It's not really a historical film."
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zack Snyder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		TV and more TV. It looks like something out of an old movie," Sam said. “Forty, fifty years ago, they were always dragging out the TV screens when they wanted to show what the glorious future would look like. As if the future was just going to be more TV.”
“And, as it turned out, it is,” Rosa said.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pat Cadigan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So the city [Pittsburgh] was faced with that question of "What to do now?" because it can't turn back the clock and be what it once was. So thematically, it seemed like the perfect location for the movie. And then, it's a matter of how we get that feeling into the picture and make it a part of [Michael] Chabon's story.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Curtis Hanson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rings' movie premiere. I was at the movie theater, and someone came up, and it was so weird to me, because I had never been recognized by a viewer, so I thought that was scary.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Connor Franta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James L. Brooks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Asif Kapadia
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlize Theron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elvis Mitchell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Nat doing 'Fault' was the greatest thing for our band, and the only reason that our song got in it because Nat was screaming it in the movie. Now we can say that we have a song in 'Fault in Our Stars,' and we have a thousand fans who went to listen to our music because we performed at an event for 'Fault in Our Stars.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alex Wolff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alfred Molina
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christian Bale