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All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?!

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.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.'

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.

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 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.

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