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Movies Quotes
"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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"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape."
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"And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head."
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"I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically."
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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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"Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks."
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"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
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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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"Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive."
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"And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies."
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"I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies."
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"There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do."
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"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."
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"Animation had been done before, but stories were never told."
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"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."
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"There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay."
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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
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"I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials."
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"The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies."
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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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"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism."
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"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot."
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"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways."
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"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better."
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"Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints."
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"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director."
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"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."
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"But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do."
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"We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television."
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"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field."
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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
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"I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it."
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"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
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