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"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."
Pedro Almodovar
"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."
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"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."
Stephen Dorff
"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."
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"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."
Roger Ebert
"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."
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"I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done."
Peter Mayhew
"I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done."
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"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."
Curtis Jackson
"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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"I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction."
Neil LaBute
"I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction."
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"MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects."
Ridley Scott
"MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects."
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"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater."
James Broughton
"Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater."
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"Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies."
Dan Glickman
"Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies."
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"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there."
Spike Lee
"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there."
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"I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making."
Javier Bardem
"I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making."
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"I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them."
Michelle Rodriguez
"I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them."
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"I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place."
Lawrence Kasdan
"I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place."
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"It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently."
Nia Long
"It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently."
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"If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies."
Patricia Highsmith
"If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
Oliver Stone
"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
Manuel Puig
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."
Jan de Bont
"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."
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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."
Jason Statham
"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."
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"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music."
Brian Setzer
"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music."
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"It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies."
Roland Emmerich
"It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies."
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"My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason."
Will Smith
"My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason."
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"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
Jodie Foster
"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
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"I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously."
Aishwarya Rai
"I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously."
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"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
Jodie Foster
"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
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"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."
Casey Affleck
"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."
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"You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around."
Rider Strong
"You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around."
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"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
Lasse Hallstrom
"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
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"It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies."
Kitty Carlisle
"It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies."
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"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
Neil Jordan
"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
Walter Hill
"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
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"Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap."
Gil Gerard
"Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap."
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"But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies."
Jason Biggs
"But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies."
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"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
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"I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies."
Poppy Z. Brite
"I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies."
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"We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!"
William Petersen
"We knew all along we were making a good show, so its success was not a surprise to me. What has surprised me is the magnitude of this show's success. More people see me now in one episode than saw me in 20 years of movies and theater!"
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"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours."
Blythe Danner
"You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours."
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"I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense."
Ryan Phillippe
"I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense."
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"I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter."
Michael Dorn
"I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter."
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"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."
Penelope Spheeris
"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."
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"I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers."
Gina Philips
"I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers."
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"When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people."
Pat Boone
"When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people."
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"I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it."
Dennis Muren
"I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it."
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"I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw."
Joe Pantoliano
"I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw."
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"Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees."
Kristen Stewart
"Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees."
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"Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies."
Peter Gallagher
"Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies."
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"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."
Rick Moranis
"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."
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"One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic."
Dwayne Johnson
"One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic."
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"Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me."
Terry Zwigoff
"Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me."
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"The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative."
Jeffrey Wright
"The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative."
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