"I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy."

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"I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy."

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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

Movies, Majority

"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

Movies, Books, Years

"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."

Ted Demme, American Director

Movies, Today, Want

"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

Movies, Music, Influence, Moments

"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."

Mario Lopez, American Actor

Movies, Work, Balance, Comedy

"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."

Rachel Griffiths, American Actress

Movies, Being, Bigotry, Civil rights

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

Laura Dern, American Actress

Movies, People, Children, Desperation

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

Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese Actress

Movies, Now

"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."

Lynn Redgrave, British Actress

Movies, Name

"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."

Parminder Nagra, English Actress

Movies, Time, Father, Daughter

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"My own parents were touchy-feely."

Parents

"I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over."

Funny

"Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years."

Car

"Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered."

Meeting

"There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!"

Work

"If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look."

Dance

"I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time."

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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."

"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."

"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."

"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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

"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."

"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."

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"My own parents were touchy-feely."

"I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over."

"Fashion is so over the top."

"I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face."

"I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor."

"Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years."

"Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered."

"There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!"

"If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look."

"I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time."