"The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the 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."

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"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

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"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

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

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."

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"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

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"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

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"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."

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

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