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If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 bad, I'm just drawn that way.

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

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

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 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 never wanted to be a movie star.

...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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.