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Movies Quotes


"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."


"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."


"If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common."


"Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars."


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


"The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright."


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


"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."


"I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role."


"I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days."


"How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go."


"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."


"So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while."


"One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake."


"But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies."


"The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies."


"Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised."


"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."


"I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there."


"When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year."
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