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Movies Quotes
"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
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"Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made."
15
"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."
14
"We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away."
14
"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television."
14
"I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff."
13
"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
13
"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
13
"I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche."
13
"I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe."
13
"You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try."
13
"You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap."
13
"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
13
"I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself."
13
"Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut."
13
"Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that."
13
"I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out."
12
"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
12
"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
12
"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."
12
"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."
12
"And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is."
12
"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
12
"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else."
12
"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
12
"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."
12
"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."
12
"I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get."
12
"I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series."
12
"I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him."
12
"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."
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