Famous Quotes: Movies

But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.
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Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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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.
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The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
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I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
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I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
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I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.
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I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
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Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.
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