Movie Quotes
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I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.
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Don't be an extra in your own movie. Move out of your comfort zone. Don't be afraid of feeling uncomfortable or awkward. Step-out and make it happen.
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I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.
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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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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn’t have very strong personal resonance.
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I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
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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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People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.
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On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
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I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it. I made a living as an actor for a long time, but I didn't think of myself as an actor, I thought I was a writer.
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Some might not know that 'What's Happening' was the television version of Cooly High. When I went on the audition, it was an audition for exactly that: the TV version of the movie.
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I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.
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I once said the wrong movie name to Aaron Eckhart, and boy did he tease me about it for years.
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When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.
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You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.
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The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.
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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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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 don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.
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I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good.
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Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
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It's interesting because First Wives Club was the first movie that made a shitload of money that starred all women over a certain age. That was a milestone that made you think, "Oh, things are going to change."
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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.'
