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"397 Movie Quotes

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
Been Child Film Films
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I really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!

About Me Movie Really
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When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Started Watch Films Movies
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

Make movies Tell Despair Run away
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

We live Cheaper Buy
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I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Actor Always Been Camera
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I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

Always Form Going Hollywood
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

100Years About Expose Film
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How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

About Changed Devices Experience
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

Fight Get Had Handed
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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Always Babies Circumstances Idea
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Actor Before Being Eye
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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

Appealing Could Dress Every
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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

Conversation Creative Eavesdropping Film
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My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.

About Eve Favorite Film
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What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
Establishment Like Look Me
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Actor Certain CertainWay Get
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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Actor Black Diversity Done
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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

About Also Auditioning Character
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Look Most Movies Us
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Every Film Great New
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.

Industry Make Man Might
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Action Desires Feed Go
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Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

America Class Film Invisible
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I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

American Begin Class Feel
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If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Been Comedy Drop Gate
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It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Agree Bad Based Because
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Absorb Attention More Movies
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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

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We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
Filmmaking Lot Conscious
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

Any Away Citizen Cuts
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No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
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A film is a terrible thing to waste.
Film Terrible Thing Waste
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Sometimes it's all about the casting.

About Casting Sometimes
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It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

Broke Consequences Film Find
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It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

Crazy Hollywood Movie Over
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In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Development Hollywood Means Title
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We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA

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I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
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I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

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Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

Being Come Creative Faces
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

About Contemplate Enjoy Facts
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

About Answer Cannot Film
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The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Almost Disparate Films Influenced
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Actor Come Director Hearts
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The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.

Anything Away Because Camera
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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
About I Wish More Movies
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Based Doing Figure Film
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Actor Actor Film General
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