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Movies Quotes


"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."


"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."


"Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies."


"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."


"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."


"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."


"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."


"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."


"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."


"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."


"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."


"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."


"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."


"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."


"It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies."


"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."


"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative."
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