"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."

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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

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John Dos Passos, American Novelist

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"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

Robert Patrick, American Actor

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"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."

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"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

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

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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."

"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

"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."

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"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy."

"I certainly had no intention of playing a man."

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"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."

"This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone."

"There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns."

"Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time."

"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."