"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

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"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

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"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

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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

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Ken Follett, Welsh Author

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James McAvoy, Scottish Actor

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Walter Hill, American Director

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"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

Neil Innes, British Writer

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Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

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"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

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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."

"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."

"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."

"'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes."

"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."

"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

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"The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot."

"I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me."

"I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time."

"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

"After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks."

"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."

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