Michael Bay
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JUDD APATOW If you don't like my movies, don't watch them. DARIO ARGENTO I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't wa... LUDIVINE SAGNIER JAMES BELUSHI ALBERT BROOKS TYLER PERRY JESSE EISENBERG KERRY HEALEY KATY PERRY When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. ... WARREN LITTLEFIELD I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gott... EAZY-E DREW GODDARD I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem... PIM FORTUYN I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, wi... HAILEE STEINFELD I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more.... AMANDA PLUMMER One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many pe... ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF BRION JAMES I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in m... DREW POMERANZ Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON CLAIRE DANES ROHIT SHETTY The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte... TAYLOR SHERIDAN I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. Th... TAJ MAHAL I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids wat... MARLON WAYANS I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. I... ZEDD There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but ... KELLY ASBURY CHELLIE PINGREE BILL SIENKIEWICZ PARKER POSEY MALCOLM D. LEE JOHN SINGLETON With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic come... CALLIE KHOURI Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th... JASON REITMAN HUGH JACKMAN Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids ... BILLY BOB THORNTON ROBIN WRIGHT We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's ... BOBBY FARRELLY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this sh... OSCAR ISAAC I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX BILL NIGHY PETER JACKSON SONAM KAPOOR TOMMY LEE JONES It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are milli... KATE BUSH VIN DIESEL TERRY CREWS SHIRLEY MACLAINE I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to b... TYLER FARR Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a '... CHELAN SIMMONS I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my tw... BARRY JENKINS GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE PATRICK WILSON In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you... OM PURI I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them. ADAM MANSBACH MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future ... ALBERT MALTZ In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I&#... ZACH BRAFF COLIN POWELL QUENTIN TARANTINO It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even... CARLA GUGINO Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I mak... RICHARD FOREMAN JODIE FOSTER I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch telev... CHARLES GRODIN I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.' COURTNEY B. VANCE MEEK MILL CHRIS ROCK ZARA LARSSON CHARLIE HUNNAM Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-bud... JOHN CORBETT I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half o... DAMON LINDELOF SHAHID KHAN JOHNNY CASH I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the high... KARLA SOUZA SUSAN ERTZ CAROL BURNETT ALAN ARKIN ADAM DRIVER I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the A... TAYLOR NEGRON I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES MICHAEL BAY FRANK MCCOURT You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES EDDIE MURPHY KATEE SACKHOFF My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You wan... ABEL FERRARA
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BAY BUCHANAN We can't continue on this path, or we may lose this country. BAY BUCHANAN I'm telling you, guys just turn that thing off because they've heard it too much at home. BAY BUCHANAN He took full responsibility, what more do they want? BAY BUCHANAN He did everything correct. They feel that they have a right to all information about his life, and t... BAY BUCHANAN It says that [if] the crab industry can't find people to work for minimum wage, they can bring in pe... BAY BUCHANAN We worked very closely with the nominating committee ... We followed exactly their instructions. BAY BUCHANAN We have to put doubt in their minds that she'll be strong on national security and then she's done. BAY BUCHANAN I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror. JAMES BAY I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro... JAMES BAY Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, &... JAMES BAY When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous. JAMES BAY I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with... JAMES BAY The 'science' behind hormone replacement therapy has put women on a medically engineered, pr... WILLOW BAY My family quite innocently don't understand the ins and outs of it all, but they see things like... JAMES BAY Being down that early kind of took the wind out of our sails and I'm sure everyone was a little bit ... JASON BAY In the third inning, it started to get real bad. It felt like I was being stabbed in the side. I tri... RONALD BAY It's more flattering now than anything, ... It's hard to comprehend something like that until it is ... JASON BAY Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something gro... JAMES BAY Pamela Anderson wore a red swimsuit. JASON BAY He spots the ball well and he throws his fastball kind of sneaky [fast]. It gets on you. It only say... JASON BAY I'm not a batting practice home-run hitter. I think I'm done with it. JASON BAY Maybe this is a wake-up call for us, too, to say 'Hey, we're shaking things up,' and, hopefully, it ... JASON BAY It's unfortunate to see one guy take the fall for 25. It really is. There seems to have been not as ... JASON BAY It's good to finally win a game ? it seems like it's a lot longer than it's actually been. JASON BAY A few guys on this team probably tried to do too much a few times, myself included. JASON BAY I try to eat something healthy. I figure the eggs are healthy. BILL BAY You'll find police officers, FBI agents, postal inspectors and brokers. You'll find construction wor... BILL BAY It's one of the places that makes St. Louis an interesting city. It has a Cheers-like quality. After... BILL BAY No offense to Lloyd (former Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon) and his staff, but I'm looking forward ... JASON BAY We decided to do shorter pieces and more performances. PETER BAY New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challe... WILLOW BAY I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the momen... JAMES BAY The Internet is the Wild West of the world, where anybody can throw anything down. Everything can be... JAMES BAY As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom ... JAMES BAY It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not... JAMES BAY For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and ... WILLOW BAY We showed a little bit of character coming back. With the way we were going, we could have easily ro... JASON BAY It's definitely not just me carrying the team, ... As a middle-of-the-order hitter my job is to driv... JASON BAY It's one of those unfortunate things that happen in sports, ... We weren't playing well and a change... JASON BAY I can understand that. It's a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business, obviously, and we're an eas... JASON BAY There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c... MICHAEL GOUGH You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le... MICHAEL SHANNON You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to. MICHAEL MINA MICHAEL CAINE MICHAEL SYMON We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ... MICHAEL CHERTOFF There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag... 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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. 
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