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No matter how good you are, you are the villain in somebody's narration of the movie.

No matter Good Villain The movie
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

Writing Movie Total Dialogue
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

Music Script CD Movie
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Language Prose Cinema Movie
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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

Matter Wrap Premiere Movie
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Life Movie Eyes Through
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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time

Able Cousins Dance Dancers
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

American American Society Dealing I Think
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

Always I Love I Think Idol
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Employee Just Movies Servant
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For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Becoming About Mogul Owning
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I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

Am Artists Covers I Am
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Free Liv Live Theater Me
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No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.

Movies Awkward Irregular Fashion
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

Dumb Hills How Movie
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The movie business is a big gamble.

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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

Become Behind Books Finding
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You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

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I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.

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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Dependent Business Living Movies
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You have to separate Paul from Barnabas. When the real me is talking, you will hear a very tactical person, but when the idiot in the movie is talking, you are seeing mumu

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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.

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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

About Everywhere Going Information
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

Against Also Because Movies
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Born Cheats Day Each
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Food was supposed to be a slightly bigger part of 'Heartburn,' and it actually didn't turn out to be because of me. I just didn't find a way to make it a bigger part of the movie as I should have, and we cut several scenes in which food was a major character.

Actually Because Bigger Character
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Because Frankly Got Like
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

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Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

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I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

After Books Movie Read
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I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Acting Anybody Brando Christ
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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

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My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

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

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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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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Ambition Drowned Get Just
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

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The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

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All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Life's Riddle Answered Movies
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Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

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Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Nobody Movies Believes Heroes
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Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

Life Like Movies
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