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"Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04."
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"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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"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."
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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
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"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."
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"They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children."
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"You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success."
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"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."
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"The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process."
Business
"Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value."
Behavior
"Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04."
Movies
"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
Decision-Making
"The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector."
Finance
"The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people."
People
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
Conversation
"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
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"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."
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"The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion."
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