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Movies Quotes
"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television."
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"I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win."
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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."
28
"I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier."
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"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
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"What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire."
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"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."
28
"Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies."
28
"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"
28
"But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies."
28
"When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies."
28
"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes."
28
"I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that."
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"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."
27
"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."
27
"When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films."
27
"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
27
"I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world."
27
"I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning."
27
"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."
27
"I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done."
27
"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."
27
"The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars."
27
"I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant."
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"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."
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"I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get."
27
"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."
27
"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies."
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"This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people."
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