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Richard Attenborough

"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie."

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"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

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Amber Hurdle

"But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies."

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