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"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

"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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Being, Choice

"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

John Hughes, American Director

Movies, Teen, Time, Sex

"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"

Margaret Carlson, American Journalist

Movies,

"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."

Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

Movies, Pornography, Trying

"I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones."

Patti Page, American Musician

Movies, Thought, Actor

"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

Movies, 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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Movies, Business, Advertising, Humanity

"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron."

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

Movies, Doubt, Interest, Romantic

"It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good."

Emily Blunt, British Actress

Movies,

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"I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger."

Will

"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."

Cinema

"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."

Cinema

"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."

Conformity

"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."

Money

"Heroism in a bad cause."

Cause

"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."

Film

"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."

Expression

"I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies."

Movies