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Movies Quotes
"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
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"The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom."
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"When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year."
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"I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies."
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"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."
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"When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical."
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"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."
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"But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be."
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"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."
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"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars."
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"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."
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"Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes."
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"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."
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"The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that."
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"I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it."
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"I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly."
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"I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that."
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"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."
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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."
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"I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant."
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