"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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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

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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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"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

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

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"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

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"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

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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."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"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

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"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

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"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."

Edward Zwick, American Director

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"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer."

Life

"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."

Film

"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better."

Work

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

Film

"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."

Thought

"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."

Creativity

"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."

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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."

"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."

"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!"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."

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"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer."

"Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing."

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."

"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."

"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better."

"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."

"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."

"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."

"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."