Famous Quotes: Movies

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
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Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
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I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.
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My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.
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I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.
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What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'
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My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
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And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
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I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.
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Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
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People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
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I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.
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Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
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Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
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