"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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"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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Being, Choice

"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

John Hughes, American Director

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"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"

Margaret Carlson, American Journalist

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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

Movies, Pornography, Trying

"I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones."

Patti Page, American Musician

Movies, Thought, Actor

"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Movies, Actor

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Movies, Business, Advertising, Humanity

"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron."

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

Movies, Doubt, Interest, Romantic

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."

Edward Zwick, American Director

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

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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

"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week."

Work

"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 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."

Work

"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."

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

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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."

"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"

"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."

"I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones."

"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron."

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."

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

"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."

"I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week."

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

"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."

"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."

"I have no television - I hate it."

"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."

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