Famous Quotes: Movies

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
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Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
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Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
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De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
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I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me.
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I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
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Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.
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I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.
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Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.
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I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.
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With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
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I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.
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I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.
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So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
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Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
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