Movie Quotes
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
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Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.
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My weapon is just a movie.
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When I was 17, I had a small part in the movie 'Election,' which shot in Omaha, Nebraska. I was really naive at the time; I really didn't know what a big deal it was.
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I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.
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It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
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The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.
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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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In some ways, Lotus Eaters is a journey disguised as a party film; there's a circus in the movie, and there are parties, but the real story is of an internal journey. There's themes of emptiness and excess and beauty and grief around it, but it's always surrounded by these glamorous events, and those are ways of waylaying her on her journey in the same way that it is in the ancient Greek story.
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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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When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want. On some level it's really wonderful and gratifying, but on another level it's rather disturbing. I'm sure you've spoken to movie stars and wondered: How do these people survive without babysitters?
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The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.
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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'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.
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I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.
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You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.
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One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
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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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I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.
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'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.
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I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some
