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Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.
From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.
To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.
I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.
I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.
There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.
I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.
On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.
I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!
Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.
Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
A good movie makes the audience feel like they've journeyed with the characters.
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.
I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.
Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.
The nice thing about a horror movie is that people go in looking to be unsettled.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.
People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.
Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.
I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.
I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.