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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

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

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

I never wanted to be a movie star.

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

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.

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

...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.

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

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

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

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.