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Related In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo... MIRA NAIR At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I re... MADISON MARLOW There are so many things we have not seen in 'Spider-Man' yet... I want to use bad guys neve... TOM HOLLAND Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they de... JOHN MALKOVICH We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i... PATRICK MARBER What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that poin... OLGA KURYLENKO Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan o... JACKIE EARLE HALEY I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves. FAITH PRINCE I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we... JONATHAN LEVINE It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories ... CARICE VAN HOUTEN Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It wa... EVA MENDES There's so many great Western films. Let's see, 'Red River,' any of those Henry Fond... TIMOTHY OLYPHANT So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them dow... MO YAN It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glyn... ELLA EYRE There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that&... CARL HIAASEN I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the w... ROSE LESLIE I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked f... AUNG SAN SUU KYI We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, ... JOHN MALKOVICH I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. S... RIVERS CUOMO I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I ... NEKO CASE The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a... OCTAVIA SPENCER I was in 'Cliffhanger' years ago, so I'm a massive fan of the big event movies - the goo... CRAIG FAIRBRASS For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We ... KEVIN BACON I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can... HILL HARPER I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY There are too many remakes, too many reimaginings. Nothing new, and that's always a bad sign. Th... DREW DAYWALT We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world. YAHOO SERIOUS People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's a... WILLIAM QUIGLEY When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we sti... LINDSAY LOHAN You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th... GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each... JAVIER BARDEM You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a ... AMITABH BACHCHAN If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that fil... RIDLEY SCOTT We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men... RAQUEL WELCH There's so many kids who only know me from the video game. And they want to know if I'm home... JOHN MADDEN Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent ... FAMKE JANSSEN I have a philosophy that white people would be interested in Native Americans because, first of all,... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I wa... LINDA FIORENTINO I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. ... CHANNING TATUM Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck.... MORGAN FREEMAN It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... CLARENCE THOMAS I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to... VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w... J. COLE They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication.... IAN HISLOP Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile co... JOAN LUNDEN So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you... TADASHI SHOJI I can tell you, because I serve on so many nonprofit boards - where half of us are academics and hal... PAUL SAMUELSON Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Holly... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. ... MARIO LEMIEUX The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin... ALAN WATTS I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and d... BINDI IRWIN I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Spe... HARVEY WEINSTEIN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hou... CARICE VAN HOUTEN I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allow... GARY COLEMAN The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc... BARRY LEVINSON I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want... 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FLAY If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it... JOHN MCCAIN When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto... BUZZ ALDRIN I get to go to so many different countries and hear so much music and collect totally different reco... JAMIE XX There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - ... MAGGIE Q Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's... KEVIN RUDD We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read ... ANNE HATHAWAY Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely ... JO BRAND There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a... BARRY JENKINS I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certa... EDDIE MARSAN I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh... RACHEL MCADAMS As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things... CARMEN EJOGO I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ... BALTASAR KORMAKUR I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that'... KARRINE STEFFANS The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the ye... DAVID HEYMAN I'm surprised how many commercials and sitcoms and movies have a need for, 'We just need som... DOUG JONES There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of cou... JESSE EISENBERG I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil ... DREW GODDARD I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. 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