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"Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview."
Jeremy Northam
"Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview."
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"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it."
Morgan Freeman
"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it."
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"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."
Joe Pantoliano
"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."
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"This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people."
Noah Hathaway
"This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people."
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"I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to."
Warren Beatty
"I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to."
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"I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records."
Martin Mull
"I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records."
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"I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking."
Alex Winter
"I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking."
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"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
Manuel Puig
"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
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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."
Barry Levinson
"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."
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"People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it."
Linda Fiorentino
"People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it."
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"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
Kevin Bacon
"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
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"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies."
Fisher Stevens
"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies."
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"I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe."
Sally Kellerman
"I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe."
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"Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are."
Andy Garcia
"Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are."
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"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
Martin Scorsese
"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
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"I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On."
Sting
"I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On."
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"I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out."
Neil Patrick Harris
"I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out."
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"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."
Ken Thompson
"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."
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"I don't like movies that are morally simple."
Paul Mazursky
"I don't like movies that are morally simple."
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"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."
Steve Guttenberg
"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."
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"There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies."
Sean Penn
"There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies."
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"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."
Brad Bird
"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."
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"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
Bud Abbott
"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
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"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television."
Eartha Kitt
"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television."
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"I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either."
Kristen Stewart
"I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either."
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"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."
Joe Eszterhas
"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."
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"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."
Casey Kasem
"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."
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"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."
Halle Berry
"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."
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"I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way."
Paul Mazursky
"I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way."
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"I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know."
Christopher Walken
"I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know."
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"When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star."
Warren Beatty
"When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star."
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"Movies are just ridiculously expensive."
Anthony Michael Hall
"Movies are just ridiculously expensive."
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"Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out."
Monica Lewinsky
"Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out."
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"The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army."
Elvis Presley
"The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army."
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"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."
James Franco
"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."
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"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."
Elvis Presley
"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."
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"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."
Audrey Hepburn
"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."
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"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."
Omar Sharif
"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."
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"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing."
Natalie Portman
"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing."
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"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence."
Natalie Portman
"Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence."
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"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."
Todd Solondz
"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."
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"Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible."
Javier Bardem
"Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible."
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"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."
Katie Holmes
"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."
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"A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies."
Michael Douglas
"A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies."
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"When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV."
Christopher Walken
"When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV."
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"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."
Jodie Foster
"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."
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"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
Victor Garber
"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
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"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
Robin Tunney
"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
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"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
Morgan Freeman
"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
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"We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies."
Kevin McDonald
"We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies."
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