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“Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.”

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Albert Brooks

Albert Brooks, born on July 22, 1947, is a renowned American actor. He has made significant contributions to both film and television, known for his unique sense of humor and acting prowess. more

“What naturally stops you making the film is there is no more money in the budget. That's really what it is. If you had an unlimited budget, if you were a billionaire and you financed your own movies, then you can either date, because you can sit in an editing room for six years, like Howard Hughes, and never finish anything.”

Ifs Years Film Rooms Six Budgets More Money Editing Unlimited Billionaire

Author:Albert Brooks

“Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.”

Names Down And Plenty Village Ireland Scotland Chicks Vikings

Author:Gerard Butler

“Iceland is 50 percent Celtic blood, from the females that they stole from us, which is why our country has only got dogs left. It was a joke! I'll never be let back in Scotland again!”

Country Left Blood Dog Jokes Percent Female Our Country Scotland Celtic Iceland

Author:Gerard Butler

“Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be up in that sky. I want to be flying through the clouds and be living in that environment." So I think if I had a dragon, I would spend most of my time up in the air all over the place and taking in this beautiful planet.”

Ifs Thinking Want Beautiful Environment Air Sky Planets Train Clouds Flying My Time Dragons Up In The Air

Author:Gerard Butler

“In actual fact, I wanted to be an actor, but I was a lawyer, and I was a week away from qualifying and was fired. And that's the day I made an announcement: "Hey, for seven years, you thought I was going to be a lawyer. Well, I'm not. I've just lost my job, and I'm packing my bags and moving to London tomorrow to be an actor."”

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Author:Gerard Butler

“We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in Scotland, I mean especially up north wherever you go you see a plastic Viking sitting outside a shop and Viking calendars and - because they - you know they came down and stole all our chicks and then some of them didn't quite get back and ended up settling down here. So there's a lot of Viking blood in Scotland.”

Knows Kind Mean Bigs Blood Sitting Tradition Down And Settling Shops Get Back Plastic Scotland Chicks Calendars Settling Down Vikings Up North

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Harrison Ford is a great actor and he's and lovely man and a great father and all of these things, I got to just meet him as a person and someone I respect as an actor.I'd never seen any 'Indiana Jones' movies or 'Star Wars' movies. My husband made me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy, I just was like fanboy Comic-Con geeked out. It was amazing I didn't show up to set with a whip and a hat.”

“When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.”

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Author:Michiel Huisman

“I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.”

People Trying Heard Work Out Ownership

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.”

Men Humans Hands Every Man Realization Boss Slogans Human Hands

Author:Gabriel Heatter

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