“I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.”
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“The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.”
“I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.”
“The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.”
“I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.”
“What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.”
“I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.”
“James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.”
“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.”
“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 have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.”
“There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.”
“The best movies are simple.”
“Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.”
“I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.”
“I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.”
“You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.”