"You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all."

Movies, Women, Writer

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all."

Exlpore more Movies quotes

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

Bette Davis, American Actress

Movies, Work, Reason

"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

Movies, Majority

"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."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

Movies, Books, Years

"I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us."

David Zucker, American Director

Movies, Brothers, Old, Thinking

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

Sean Young, American Actress

Movies, Work, People, Actors

"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

Max von Sydow, Swedish Actor

Movies, Time, Opportunity, America

"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."

Ted Demme, American Director

Movies, Today, Want

"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not."

Zoe Saldana, American Actor

Movies, Sex, People, Trying

"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."

Peter Bogdanovich, American Director

Movies, People, Film, Grammar

"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others."

Blair Underwood, American Actor

Movies,

Explore more quotes by Elle Macpherson

"I like to make movies I like to watch."

Movies

"A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest."

Success

"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."

Peace

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

America

"I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them."

Children

"I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame."

Fame

"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important."

Achievement

"Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't."

Focus

"As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working."

Movies

"Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other."

Acting