Movie Quotes
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Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.
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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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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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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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A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
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Most people are extras in their own movie.
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John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
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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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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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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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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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Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.
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Even when you're acting with a producing hat, when you're in every scene, you're really conscious of trying to make everybody as good as they are, because ultimately you're trying to make the best movie possible.
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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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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.
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A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.
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My dad took me to my first movie.
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A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.
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I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.