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"Movies are movies, television is television."
Dirk Benedict
"Movies are movies, television is television."
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
Jill Robinson
"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"I make movies based on gut."
Jerry Bruckheimer
"I make movies based on gut."
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"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
John Dos Passos
"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."
Jason Statham
"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."
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"My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time."
Eva Green
"My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time."
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"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."
Rick Moranis
"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."
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"I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like."
Patricia Arquette
"I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like."
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"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."
John Sayles
"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."
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"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."
George A. Romero
"The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director."
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"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."
Ralph Bakshi
"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."
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"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that."
Roger Ebert
"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that."
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"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."
Art Spiegelman
"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."
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"I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show."
Danny Masterson
"I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show."
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"I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television."
Robert Englund
"I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television."
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"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."
Joel Coen
"Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there."
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"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."
Robert Patrick
"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."
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"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."
Michael Bolton
"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."
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"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."
Sarah Vowell
"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."
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"Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is."
Alexis Bledel
"Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is."
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"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."
Keenen Ivory Wayans
"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."
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"The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves."
Michelle Rodriguez
"The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves."
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"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."
Michael Bay
"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."
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"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
Jet Li
"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
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"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."
David Zucker
"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."
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"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."
Joss Whedon
"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."
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"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"
Margaret Carlson
"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"
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"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not."
Zoe Saldana
"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not."
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"The movies were custard compared to politics."
Nancy Reagan
"The movies were custard compared to politics."
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"In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better."
John Kricfalusi
"In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better."
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"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."
Sean Young
"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."
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"If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good."
Justin Timberlake
"If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good."
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"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material."
Rick Moranis
"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material."
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"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Richard Russo
"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
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"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
Claudia Cardinale
"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."
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"I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it."
Serena Williams
"I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it."
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"Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick."
Bobby Farrelly
"Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything I know about him. He's very decisive, he makes up his mind real quick."
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"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."
Gabriel Mann
"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."
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"Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies."
Richard King
"Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies."
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"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."
Max von Sydow
"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."
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"I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now."
Jeffrey Jones
"I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now."
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"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."
Sam Mendes
"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."
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"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."
Kiefer Sutherland
"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."
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"I like making movies."
Antoine Fuqua
"I like making movies."
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"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."
Richard Attenborough
"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."
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"Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies."
Asia Argento
"Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies."
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"I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles."
Gena Rowlands
"I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles."
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"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."
Laura Kightlinger
"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."
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"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good."
Chevy Chase
"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good."
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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
Lynn Redgrave
"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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