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Movies Quotes


"Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida."


"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."


"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."


"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"


"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly."


"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."


"I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera."


"I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports."


"I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say."


"I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March."


"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise."


"I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe."


"Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles."


"I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous."


"Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04."


"How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand."


"A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit."


"Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies."


"I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters."


"I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing."


"The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable."


"Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were."


"I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies."


"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."


"Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic."


"No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne."


"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."


"But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies."


"So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies."


"I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies."


"We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too."


"I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done."


"Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the porn industry, it has to be across the board or it's ineffective."
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