“I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.”
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“Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.”
“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.”
“In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.”
“Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.”
“It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.”
“People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.”
“Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.”
“I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.”
“I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.”
“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.”
“Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.”
“I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.”
“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.”
“I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.”
“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.”
“A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.”
“How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.”
“I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.”
“The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.”
“I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.”
“My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.”
“I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.”
“When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.”