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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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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
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"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."
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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."
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"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."
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"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
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"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."
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"I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make."
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"Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years."
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"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor."
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"Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground."
Society
"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
Movies
"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
Decision-Making
"Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups."
Business
"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."
Business
"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
Love
"The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people."
People
"Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value."
Behavior
"Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information."
Society
"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie."
Money
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