882 private quotes tagged movies

“Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.” — Morgan Freeman

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“You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.” — David Ogden Stiers

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“It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.” — Vincent D'Onofrio

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“I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.” — David Bailey

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“I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.” — Nicolas Cage

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“The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.” — Meryl Streep

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“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?” — John Lasseter

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“And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.” — Nicolas Cage

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“There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.” — Antonio Banderas

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“The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.” — John Cusack

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“I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.” — John Cusack

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“I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.” — John Cusack

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“I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.” — Adam Sandler

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“I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.” — Kim Cattrall

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“I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.” — John Cusack

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“Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.” — John Cusack

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“It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.” — John Cusack

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“I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.” — Carrie Underwood

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“Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.” — Adam Sandler

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“I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.” — Clive Owen

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“Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.” — John Cusack

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“I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.” — John Cusack

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“It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.” — John Cusack

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“The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.” — Christina Ricci

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