"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale."

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"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale."

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

Bette Davis, American Actress

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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

"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."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

Movies, Books, Years

"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."

David Zucker, American Director

Movies, Brothers, Old, Thinking

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

Sean Young, American Actress

Movies, Work, People, Actors

"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."

Max von Sydow, Swedish Actor

Movies, Time, Opportunity, America

"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

Movies, Today, Want

"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

Movies, Sex, People, Trying

"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."

Peter Bogdanovich, American Director

Movies, People, Film, Grammar

"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 was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit."

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"It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time."

Time

"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy."

People

"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"

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"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."

Time

"I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure."

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"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."

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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."

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

"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."

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"I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him."

"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."

"You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit."

"I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit."

"It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time."

"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy."

"I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'"

"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."

"I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure."

"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."