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Movies Quotes
"The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies."
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"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."
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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."
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"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
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"Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were."
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"You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth."
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"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television."
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"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director."
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"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."
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"If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common."
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"Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies."
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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York."
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"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies."
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"I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement."
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"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
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"I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies."
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"We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate."
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"The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative."
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"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."
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"I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible."
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"I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier."
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"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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"Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies."
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"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."
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