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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.