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Movies Quotes
"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."
110
"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
107
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."
107
"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."
103
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
85
"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."
82
"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."
82
"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."
69
"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."
60
"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
54
"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."
54
"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."
53
"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."
51
"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."
51
"It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies."
50
"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."
50
"Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack."
50
"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."
48
"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."
47
"I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies."
47
"I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer."
46
"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."
45
"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."
45
"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."
44
"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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