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Movies Quotes
"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."
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"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."
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"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
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"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."
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"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."
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"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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"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."
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"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."
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"If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script."
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"Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack."
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"It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies."
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"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."
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"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."
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"I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer."
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"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."
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"It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot."
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"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
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"Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink."
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"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."
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"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."
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"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it."
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"They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment."
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"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
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