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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
We call my son's role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy Sean's little independent movie.
I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.
If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.
It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.
A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months.
I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.
I only did four days on 'Just Mercy' at the same time I'm playing a cowboy in another movie.
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.
I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.
I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Working with Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming, they're not just Chinese stars, they're movie stars.
I wanna meet Meryl Streep, so she can be my mama. I want Meryl Streep to be my mom in a movie.
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.