"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."

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"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."

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"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

"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

Movies, Years

"I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read."

Jim Harrison, American Writer

Movies, Books, Care

"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."

Laura Kightlinger, American Comedian

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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

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"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

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"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."

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"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."

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"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."

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"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."

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"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."

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"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."

"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."

"I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read."

"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."

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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."

"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."

"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."

"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."

"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."

"You have to think with the heart."

"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."

"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."