Movie Quotes
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There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.
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I think it's really important to have a life and have interests outside of this movie business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you're really in a dangerous spot.
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With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.
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If someone ever decides to tell my story, it will make for a typical masala movie.
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The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.
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Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with... it feels like the best opportunity that's ever come your way, whether that's in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.
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The most insipid movie released so far this century.
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Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
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'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.
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I won't make a movie for money ever again.
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“I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.”
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I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.
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If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
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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 learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.
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With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.
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You don't want a movie to have a lot of awards and no audience.
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Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.
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I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
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I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
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I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.
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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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It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.
