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Movies Quotes
"When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year."
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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."
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"Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies."
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"I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing."
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"I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints."
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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites."
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"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
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"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."
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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
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"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."
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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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"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."
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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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"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."
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"I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV."
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"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."
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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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"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."
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"Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see."
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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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"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."
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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."
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"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."
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"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes."
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"If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million."
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