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Movies Quotes
"I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials."
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"No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne."
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"I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have."
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"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."
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"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."
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"Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the porn industry, it has to be across the board or it's ineffective."
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"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?"
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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 lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it."
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"More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation."
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"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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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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"But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from."
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"It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies."
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"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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"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
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"James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies."
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"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."
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"We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate."
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"I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role."
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"I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days."
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"I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me."
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