Movie Quotes
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A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.
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Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.
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I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.
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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.
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The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.
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Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.
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I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it’s independent or a studio movie. I’m much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I’ll be second fiddle. Fine. I’m happy to do it.
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Rotten Tomatoes is the best thing that happened to the movie business because it means you have to make good movies.
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I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.
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I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?
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At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.
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In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.
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If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we saw an airplane in a 3 Musketeers movie.
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The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.
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I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.
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Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.
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I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
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I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.
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I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.
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Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
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Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.
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I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.
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I'm strong-willed, but that doesn't mean I can't work with people if we're all in the mission of trying to make a good movie.
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Alienation is the most common state of the knowledgeable movie audience, and though it has the peculiar rewards of low connoisseurship, a miser’s delight in small favors, we long to be surprised out of it - not to suspension of disbelief nor to a Brechtian kind of alienation, but to pleasure, something a man can call good without self-disgust.
