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I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
You can't train a goat. You can't. You can't. So I don't recommend making a movie with a goat in a major role to anyone.
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, 'Why Did I Get Married?'
You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.
To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
'Chernobyl' is a human story. It's not a disaster movie. It's not about explosions. It's about people and truths and lies.
It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.
I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.
I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.
I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.
I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.
I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.'
I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not.
I was not a name; I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.
I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.
The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
For there to be a 'Community' movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.
I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.
I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.
'Infernal Affairs' is really amazing and was a really popular movie. I would be fine with playing any character in the movie.
My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
I was in a movie with Angelina Jolie called 'Life Or Something Like It' where I played her fiance, and I have a song in there.
One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.