Movie Quotes
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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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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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If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.
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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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It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
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You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.
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I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.
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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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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 can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.
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In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."
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Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.
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I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.
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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.
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There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.
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I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.
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After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
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No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
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If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.
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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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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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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
