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Author:Jeffrey Wright

“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.”

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Author:Jeffrey Wright

“Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?”

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Author:Ed Wood

“I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.”

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Author:Scott Wolf

“The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.”

Giving Made Order Culture Balance Giving Up Tricks Movie Worthwhile Not Giving Up Tricky

Author:Alex Winter

“The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.”

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Author:Alex Winter

“The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.”

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Author:Alex Winter

“I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.”

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Author:Alex Winter

“I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.”

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Author:Alex Winter

“Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.”

Pleasure Happenings Movie

Author:Fred Willard

“When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.”

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Author:Forest Whitaker

“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.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.”

Thinking Hard Rocks Movie

Author:Paul Westerberg

“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.”

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Author:Wim Wenders

“You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.”

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Author:Naomi Watts

“I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.”

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Author:Ray Walston

“I don't see all the movies that come out.”

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Author:Ray Walston

“My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.”

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Author:Robert Wagner

“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.”

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Author:Sarah Vowell

“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.”

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Author:Bruce Vilanch

“People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.”

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Author:Matthew Vaughn

“It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.”

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Author:Matthew Vaughn

“I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.”

Havens Enormous Checks Movie

Author:Jack Vance

“It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.”

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Author:Blair Underwood

“So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.”

People Bigs Movie

Author:Stanley Tucci

“I never go overbudget on my movies.”

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Author:Stanley Tucci

“For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.”

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Author:Rachel True

“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.”

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Author:Guillermo del Toro

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

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Author:Justin Timberlake

“That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.”

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Author:Meg Tilly

“I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.”

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Author:Meg Tilly

“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.”

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Author:J. Lee Thompson

“But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.”

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Author:Julie Taymor

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.”

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Author:Rider Strong

“If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.”

Ifs Years Mean Made Millions Four Agents Movie Salary

Author:Peter Stormare

“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.”

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Author:Eric Stoltz

“The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.”

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Author:Fisher Stevens

“The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.”

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Author:Bruce Sterling

“The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.”

Thinking States Shows Would Be Strong Careers Fans Movie Canada Great Fans

Author:Scott Speedman

“You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.”

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Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

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