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Movies Quotes


"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."


"You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them."


"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."


"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better."


"I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of."


"When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool."


"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."


"I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing."


"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."


"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."


"They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em."


"Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies."


"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."


"The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know."


"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."


"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."


"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."


"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."


"I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland."


"What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once."


"I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies."


"I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies."


"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."


"I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies."
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