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Movies Quotes


"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."


"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."


"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."


"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."


"I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory."


"I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show."


"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."


"Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone."


"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."


"We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody."


"The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves."


"We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience."


"Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that."


"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."


"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"


"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."


"I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash."


"Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies."


"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."


"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."


"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies."


"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie."


"I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles."


"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good."


"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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