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Movies Quotes


"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."


"It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies."


"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."


"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies."


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


"Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century."


"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."


"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."


"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."


"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies."


"I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance."


"I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?"


"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."



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


"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."


"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal."


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



"For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."


"Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites."


"Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles."


"And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen."



"I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites."


"So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write."


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


"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."
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