"It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy."

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"It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy."

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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 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."

Trevor Rabin, South African Musician

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

Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese Actress

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"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."

Keren Ann, Israeli Musician

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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

Liz Phair, American Musician

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"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

Uwe Boll, German Director

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"I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports."

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Performance

"I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive."

Energy

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Reality

"A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene."

Open

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Newspapers

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Film

"In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic."

People

"I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were."

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"What I wanted more than anything was a long career."

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