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Movies Quotes
"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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"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."
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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."
3
"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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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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"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."
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"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
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"There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do."
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"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."
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"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."
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"Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies."
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"More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television."
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"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."
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"I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell."
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"No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne."
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"It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before."
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"Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse."
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"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."
3
"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
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"When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies."
3
"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies."
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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."
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"They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good."
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"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism."
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"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
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"You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them."
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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."
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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."
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