Movie Quotes
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In 'Snow White and the Hunstman,' when we see them in the Dark Forest, you're allowed a lot of freedom to be able to cutaway to, for instance, the prince. That B and C story stuff helps the writing process, even though it makes it a more complicated movie.
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Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.
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I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it's stuff that I don't have anywhere to wear... I don't have the life that goes with the clothes.
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The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory for the economy and things that were to happen. And that was so on the nose in the movie for me. I was like, 'That's obvious.' It's the other stuff about marriage and commitment and those other things that I spent the most time thinking about.
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See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.
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Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.
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'Clown' started as a fake trailer for a nonexistent movie.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.
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I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.
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What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
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Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia,' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.
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What I think is really great about this movie , that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.
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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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But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.
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The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
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I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
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The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
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I'm that sort of weird guy who will watch a movie almost every day if I can.
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You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.
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Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
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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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I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.
