Quotes by Michael Bay - Page 1

Fast cars are my only vice.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Car
Fast Car
Vices
Only
Fast
Fast Cars
Vice
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Why isn't everything exploding?!
Michael Bay / Film Director
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I don't change my style for anybody. Pussies do that.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Don't Change
Pussy
Style
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I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Movies
Crime
Dear
Teenage
Boy
Oh
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I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Boys
Crime
Teenage
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Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Directors
Voice
Younger
Maybe
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Directing is not a job. It's more like a career. Which is great!
Michael Bay / Film Director
Jobs
Careers
Directing
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I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Cameras
Directors
Camera
Shoots
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I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Audience
Want
Audiences
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I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Funny
Feels
Funny Stuff
Improvisation
Rooms
Stuff
Allow
Room
Planned
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A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Car
Bigs
Moments
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Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Baby
Night
Sleep
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It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Really Cool
Years
Turned
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I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Business
Care
Don't Care
People
Winning
Die
Success Business People
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A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Directors
Pearls
Pressure
Size
Thrive
Want
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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Im at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. Ive got my dogs as surrogates, but Im ready for kids.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Kids
Dog
Want
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I'm at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I've got my dogs as surrogates, but I'm ready for kids.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Married
Ready
Life My Life Point
Life My Life Where
Dogs
Get Married
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You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Done
People
Want
Hear People
People Say
Poorly
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Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Fascinated
Heroism
Pearls
Tragedy
Harbor
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
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When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.
Michael Bay / Film Director
More Time
Shooting
Sometimes
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I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Clicks
Events
Looks
Marathon
Race
Directing
Event
Excel
Push
Sporting Event
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I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers,' it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Done
Three
Tire
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I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers', it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Effects
Tiring
Transformers
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And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Crew
Me People Fans
Hired
Transformers
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You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Feelings
Four
Three
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Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Careers
Luck
Thinking
Nobody
Films
Fox
Transformers
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For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Cheer
Great Joy
Joy
Laughing
Right Moment
Great Moment Me
Cheers
Laughs
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It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Accused
Needs
People
Politically Correct
Relax
Great World People
Correct
Screwed
Seriously
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There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Angry
Feelings
Gone
People
Spending
Studios
Time Money Movies
Audiences
Badly
Profits
Quick
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I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Bigs
Directors
Toys
Love Movies Always
Awesome
Sets
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I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'
Michael Bay / Film Director
Deeper
People
Reserved
Sensitive
Shy
Thinking
Business People More
General
Business Side
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Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?
Michael Bay / Film Director
Directors
Do You Know
Hard Times
Hell
Honestly
Sick
Thinking
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Its... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. Its the worst thing youll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Horse
Mind
Thinking
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It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Died
Horse
Shot
Mind Your Me
Hard Thing
Worst Thing
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The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Brain
Brain Surgery
Entertainers
Nice
Nice Things
Profit
Simple
Surgery
Label
Plain
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I like to have an active set and a fun set. I keep my days to a decent hour; I don't go overtime. Do I beat people up? I beat people up in that they know I like to shoot fast. And they know I like to be efficient. And that I like to leapfrog.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Fun
Hours
People
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There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Kids
Pet
Example
Grumpy
Guy
Stuff
Chain
For Example
Geriatric
Gravitate
Towards
Lore
Robot
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What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Challenges
Directors
Thinking
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What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Reinventing
Muscle
Breaks
Director
Fast
Script
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I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Running
Talking
Target Audience
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We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Audience
Critics
Dark
Done
Joy
Likes
Millions
Paid
People
Theater
Greatest
Somebody
Anonymously
Watch
Millions Of People
Paying
Sit
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I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Fire
Firsts
Littles
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I don't ever want to do a movie where you shoot it on a motion capture stage. I just don't like taking the reality out of it. I like being on the set in real environments. I don't like shooting on green screen. I think it gives the actors so much more to play with when there's real stuff happening on the set.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Play
Real
Thinking
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Hollywood has to start finding more original stuff They've got to start by not depending on, 'What can we churn back out? How can we regurgitate this?' That's why I want to redo the feel of Transformers. That's why I wanted to start with a new cast. You want it to feel fresh, and you want to make it feel different than the other three.
Michael Bay / Film Director
Different
Hollywood
Three
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