“I consider myself the end user. I make movies that I would like.”
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“Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
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“I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.”
“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”
“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.”
“Most of us do not consciously look at movies.”
“If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.”
“No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.”
“My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.”
“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”
“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”
“Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.”
“Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.”
“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”
“I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.”
“People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.”
“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, let alone American movies.”
“Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.”
“I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.”
“When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.”
“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”
“I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?”
“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”
“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”
“Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.”