Movie Quotes
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After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.
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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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I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
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I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.
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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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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some
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When I'm making a big movie, I miss and appreciate all the subtleties that come with making a smaller film that is more intimate, more personal.
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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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I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.
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If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.
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I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.
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With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.
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I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.
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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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Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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We don't decide how a movie will be distributed until it's finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.
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It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.
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My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
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As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.
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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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Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.
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I easily fall asleep during a movie.
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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
