Movie Quotes
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I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.
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There have been funny sequels, but I don't know if there have been that many that feel like they're - you know - they're just as great a movie to watch, just as fun an experience but different.
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The most insipid movie released so far this century.
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Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.
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I think people really don't understand what a producer does versus what a director does. I mean, the producer is often the person that is on the movie the longest - it's their material that they are then bringing the director onto to bring it to the screen. Are we overlooked? Absolutely.
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I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
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It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.
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The other day in the garage, I found a book report from the seventh grade that I did about silent movie stars. It's funny to look at now, because it really foretold what my future would be.
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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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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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The truth is that every experience, every feeling, every film you see, becomes part of the sensibilities you apply to making a movie.
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Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.
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But we all kind of knew we were doing a really good movie while we were filming it.
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The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'
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When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'
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When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.
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I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.
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You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.
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You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.'
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There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.
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I remember the first scene I shot on 'The Blind Side.' I was with Sandra Bullock, and I kept trying to stop myself thinking, 'Oh my God, I can't believe I'm in a movie with her.'
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People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.
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Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo'... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
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For me, the best high school movie is, like, 'Fast Times' and what Cameron Crowe is like.
