Movie Quotes
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My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: Star Wars.
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I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.
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If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
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A lot of times, identifying with a character in a book or a movie makes me feel really vulnerable. Especially in books, it's like being able to see an amplified version of yourself, and it's very surreal.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
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On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable.
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Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.
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The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.
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I've always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It's fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone's hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other.
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I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.
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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.
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I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.
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Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.
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Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
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The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.
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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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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
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If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.
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I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
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First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.
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I think the superstar thing is completely arbitrary. It's all about who had a movie that did well one weekend. Then, if you have a movie that doesn't do well the next weekend, then, all of the sudden, you've fallen from whatever. So it doesn't really mean anything for me.
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I've made a career of being a contrarian. If I'm going to work with Tom Cruise, it's my instinct to be like, 'Well, I'm going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.'
