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Movies Quotes


"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."


"This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe."


"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."


"I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out."


"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."


"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."


"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"


"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television."



"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."


"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."


"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies."
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