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At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

great villains make great movies.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

I am fully committed to 'Hannah Montana.' It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the 'Hannah Montana' movie that will be out in the spring.

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.