Movie Quotes
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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.'
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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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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 am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
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Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.
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The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...
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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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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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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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If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.
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After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.
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Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
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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'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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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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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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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
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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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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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People would say to him, "When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?" Or, "Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?"
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I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.
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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some
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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.
