Movie Quotes
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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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The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
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I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
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I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'
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It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.
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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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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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This is a way for his memory to be honored and have a presence in the movie.
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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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Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.
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We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.
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I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.
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Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
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One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.
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There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.
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I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.
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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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Most people are extras in their own movie.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.
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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.
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That’s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s flipping burgers—she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.
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Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the script is good and I met with Robert and we seemed simpatico and we developed. But I had a real passion for that role and that brought me deep into that film 'cause I got the sense that Robert Budreau was going to really let me be creative inside this part.
