Movie Quotes
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's dead.' I think it's all about the quality. When there are one or two good horror movies in a row, people come out interested again.
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For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
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I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.
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I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I'd go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn't send us the right order and demand they fix it. I've tried to make that right whenever I could.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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I actually have great respect for the professionals on both sides, journalism designers in the fashion industry, and I wanted to make a movie that celebrated what they did as much as poke fun at the challenges of their lives.
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I'm a movie guy - I can get lost in anything.
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Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
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One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
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'Pump Up the Volume' was a film and character that I really responded to. That was a movie about a guy trying to take down the establishment using a ham radio. I feel 'Mr. Robot' has a similar value. This show is about taking down a global empire. I was an anarchist then. I'm getting to be an anarchist again.
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To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.
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My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.
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You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.
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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
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Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
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If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
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For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
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As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.
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I never put down a bad script and I never walk out of a bad movie because I'm always hopeful things will change.
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As much as I enjoy doing Resident Evil - and I'm so grateful that this movie, fourth in the franchise, has done better than any of the ones before - the fact that I can get movies made that I wanna make...it gives me the opportunity to do things like Dirty Girl.
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I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
