“I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.”
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“I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.”
“Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.”
“I really like children to watch my movies.”
“I've choreographed all of my movies.”
“When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.”
“Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.”
“It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.”
“People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”
“Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.”
“The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.”
“I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.”
“People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.”
“I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.”
“I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.”
“Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.”
“You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.”
“I like very much to do movies.”
“I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.”
“Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.”
“You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.”
“More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.”
“I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.”
“Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.”