“And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.”
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“The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.”
“The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.”
“The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.”
“I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.”
“You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.”
“The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.”
“Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.”
“Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.”
“I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.”
“Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.”
“Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.”
“I'm a fan of action movies.”
“I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.”
“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.”
“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.”
“With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.”
“If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.”
“I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.”
“You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.”
“As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.”
“I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.”
“I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.”
“On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.”