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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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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."
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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."
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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."
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"For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English."
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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've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
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"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."
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"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."
Rain

"After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?"
Right

"I wish all men were like dogs."
Men

"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
Movies

"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."
Being

"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."
Life

"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
Growing up

"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."
Movies

"While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress."
Work

"I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head."
Time
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