Movie Quotes
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Every Pixar movie at one time was the worst motion picture ever made.
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Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
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At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.
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Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.
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I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
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I'm a big, big movie fan; really, I've seen everything. I really mean that, too.
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It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.
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You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.
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I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.
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A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.
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I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.
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When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.
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Everyone makes sacrifices for their job; the movie's not saying that you don't have to work hard. The movie is saying that if you're going to work hard, then make it worth it, believe in what you're doing.
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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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By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits because I'd work lunches during the week, and then on a Wednesday would go be lucky enough to be in a movie like 'Kinsey.'
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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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Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.
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To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.
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I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good.
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I think you should make a movie that has an audience.
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All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
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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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In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.
