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"397 Movie Quotes

I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.

Dark Grew Just Kid
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I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.

About Actor Any Being
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Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.

Bad Care Certainly Don't Care
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Actor Audience Author Business
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Sometimes I'll be watching a movie then think to myself that I could do a better job.

Better Better Job Could Job
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I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

Boring Hollywood Most Outside
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Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.

Ambition First Child Had
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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

After Big Corners Days
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I'm a big fan of 'The Last Dragon' - Bruce Leroy and Sho'nuff - that's one of my favorite movies growing up.

Big Big Fan Bruce Dragon
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

Always Cry Father Gets
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

Attractive Chemistry Cool Cool Guy
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.

About Around Close Hobbies
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Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

Action Action Movie Come Cool
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

Comedy Funny Little Play
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Behind Breathing Camera Job
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Acting Angry Get Go
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

About Awhile Event Happen
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
Aim Full Lifetime Movies
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Anything Became Did Die
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Directed Editing Going Movie
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Comedy Fools Girl Movie
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Acting Directing Frustrating Heaven
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I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Back Been Cried Damaged
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I was about 18 when I started making music, making beats. My mindset was totally different.

About Beats Different Making
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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

Make Money Movie Sometimes
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

Before Character Done Either
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I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

About Becomes Chris Dead
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

About Any Anything Day
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Anything Goes Inside Limited
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do

About Great Kings Old
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Bone Close Eight Episode
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Everything Except Films Makes
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.

Believable Character Characters Find
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

Drama I Think Life Much
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

Always Around Different Doing
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Accepted Actor Along Couple
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Behind Better Camera Cast
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Consider Dialogue Necessary Plot
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
Bigger Just Musician Scale
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Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Hollywood Later Make Me
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The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Again Army Blues First
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Those movies sure got me into a rut.
Got Me Movies Rut
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I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

About Acting Away Been
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I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

100 Years Could Films Harry
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