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I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.

Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.