Movie Quotes
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Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.
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And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.
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Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.
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The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
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It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.
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The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
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I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.
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I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.
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The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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Who should make a great movie about Wonder Woman? It should be somebody who loves Wonder Woman. And I know that I'm that. So let's go and try.
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I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in.
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When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
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Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.
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I don't have a lot of experiences like this where every time I thought I had a good idea it was totally wrong. I had to give in completely and just try to make the movie Alejandro Amenábar was trying to make.
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The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
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TV show's really quick. You're in, you're out. A film usually takes a lot longer. However, a voiceover is very much like TV in the sense that it's really quick. For example, I did the movie Planes in one day.
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We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
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Sometimes I might feel like a movie is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.
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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn’t have very strong personal resonance.
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It's very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don't hire casting directors for that. Instead, they look for people that they've seen in other movies or they're friends with.
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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
