"I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have."

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"I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have."

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"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

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"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

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Peter Bogdanovich, American Director

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"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

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"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

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"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."

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"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."

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"Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred."

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"You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."

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"Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it."

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"Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink."

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"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."

"Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred."

"You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie."

"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."