"There's an electrical thing about movies."

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

Mark Hamill, American Actor

Movies, Actors, Suspicion

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."

Gary Oldman, English Actor

Movies, Books, Kids

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Movies, Jazz, Writers

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."

Sydney Pollack, American Director

Movies, Art, Film, Thinking

"I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees."

Bruce Vilanch, American Comedian

Movies, People

"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen."

Trevor Rabin, South African Musician

Movies,

"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese Actress

Movies, Now

"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

"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars."

Kenneth Edmonds, American Musician

Movies, Stars

"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."

Molly Ringwald, American Actress

Movies, Success, People, Collaboration

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"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."

Thought

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

Research

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

Experience

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

People

"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."

Leadership

"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."

History

"Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize."

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."

"I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees."

"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen."

"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

"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."

"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars."

"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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"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

"In any film there's always a historical implication."

"I study history in order to give an interpretation."

"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."

"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."

"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."

"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."

"Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize."