"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."

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"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."

"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."

"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."

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