"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish."
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"I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable."
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"Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member."
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"The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere."
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"I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here."
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"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."
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"I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie."
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"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."
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"My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'"
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"I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"A film has its own life and takes its own time."
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"I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic."
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"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies."
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"Growing up I didn't watch movies."
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"There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's."
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"Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie."
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