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"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."
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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
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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."
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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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"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."
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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."
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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."
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"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."
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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."
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"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."
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"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
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"Underneath all the skin, we're all the same."
Skin


"It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy."
Comedy


"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
Hollywood


"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."
Friendship


"I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful."
Business


"I've made a lot of people a lot of money, and I've made a lot of people really happy. I've entertained millions and millions of people."
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"I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed."
Deep


"In Utah, there are no bad things in the water there. It's just smooth, really beautiful."
Water


"Directing is a tremendous art."
Art


"If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did."
Money
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