"If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies."

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"If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies."

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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."

Gabrielle Reece, American Athlete

Movies, Being, Famous, Want

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

Steven Spielberg, American Director

Movies, Day

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

Jason Patric, American Actor

Movies, Office

"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

Mark Hamill, American Actor

Movies, Actors, Suspicion

"There's not a lot of good movies being made."

Sean Penn, American Actor

Movies, Being

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

Mary McCarthy, American Author

Movies, Negative, America

"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."

John Dos Passos, American Novelist

Movies, Advertising, Eyes, May

"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

Robert Patrick, American Actor

Movies, Commerce

"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."

Rosie Perez, American Actress

Movies, Reality

"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

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"I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone."

Dream

"A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake."

Rights

"Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten."

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"Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother."

Humor

"I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine."

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"I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes."

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"I have no television - I hate it."

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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

"There's not a lot of good movies being made."

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."

"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."

"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

Explore more quotes by Patricia Highsmith

"I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone."

"A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake."

"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."

"For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not."

"Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground."

"Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten."

"Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother."

"I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine."

"I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes."

"I have no television - I hate it."