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Movies Quotes


"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."


"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."


"Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out."


"But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang."


"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."


"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."


"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."



"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."


"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."



"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."


"I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer."


"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."


"I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful."


"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."



"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."


"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."



"I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie."


"Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack."


"It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies."


"I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand."


"We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away."


"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."



"You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies."



"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."



"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."
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