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Movies Quotes
"But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang."
5
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."
4
"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
4
"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
3
"Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out."
3
"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."
3
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
3
"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."
2
"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."
1
"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
1
"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."
1
"Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars."
1
"There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful."
1
"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."
"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."
"What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once."
"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies."
"I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing."
"If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York."
"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."
"I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing."
"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."
"This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people."
"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."
"I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes."
"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies."
"I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement."
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