Movie Quotes
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You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
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I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money.
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
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I'm English, and my favorite movie is Manhattan.
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I easily fall asleep during a movie.
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Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'
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I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.
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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
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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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I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.
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Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.
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I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.
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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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I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
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After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.
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The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
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The one thing I cannot tolerate in life is seeing people being taken advantage of, I cannot tolerate it; I can't even see it in a movie. That can borderline on abuse and so what I would say is: really know when to put that guard up, and know how to really read people because that will help you along the way.
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I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.
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I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.
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I like 'Reanimator,' and I like 'Evil Dead 2.' But I really like the Corman movies from the late '60s and early '70s, and my favorite is 'The Mask of Red Death' with Vincent Price because - spoiler alert - but at the end of the movie, Vincent Price, he's the evil prince, and to kill him, his court just, like, dances at him.
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I've written pilots. I wrote a movie.
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My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.
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When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
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I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.
