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Movies Quotes


"I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up."


"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"


"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."


"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."


"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."


"I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit."


"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."


"Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were."


"I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between."


"My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies."


"You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all."


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


"After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made."


"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."


"Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously."


"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music."



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


"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."


"You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around."


"Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay."


"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."


"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."


"I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies."


"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic."


"I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste."


"I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them."


"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."


"They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies."


"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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