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WES BENTLEY JIMMY PAGE What I want to say to teenagers is, 'Do everything you can to see this movie, use your false I.D.'s ... JOE ESZTERHAS For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go rig... JON FAVREAU You can be sure that a good percentage of people who saw the movie came across this game online, JOSEPH JAFFE JARVIS COCKER PATRICK NESS My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has ... EMIR KUSTURICA If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like... CARLTON CUSE J.R.R. TOLKIEN A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far e... WES BENTLEY JOHN FRANKENHEIMER DOUG LIMAN When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else. 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SEUSS DAVID CRONENBERG Hopefully this sort of movie can provide an idea of inspiration that might allow (students) to go in... DERICK VIRGIL When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamor... CHARLES FLEISCHER DOUG FERRARI Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of wa... CHRIS GARDNER And when he is telling a serious story, you can hear a pin drop. It's is the same thing as going to ... JOE STOWELL We have some momentum going, but I really think we'll feel it once the movie comes out. I think it'l... MARK SNYDER The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best effor... MAHESH BABU DANNY DEVITO RAINBOW ROWELL I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews ... EMILIO AZCARRAGA JEAN ADAM MCKAY DOVE CAMERON MICHAEL BAY H. 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CASEY AFFLECK What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little... CASEY AFFLECK I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent ... CASEY AFFLECK I have had a turtle, a guinea pig, a dog, girlfriends, and many sweet, playful, sleepy, loving, deli... CASEY AFFLECK I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was... CASEY AFFLECK I'm not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy ... CASEY AFFLECK When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy... CASEY AFFLECK Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? CASEY AFFLECK But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate. CASEY AFFLECK My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we... 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