When it comes to actually showing exactly what's going on, there's just nothing like a movie. You can look at a still image and make up all kinds of stories, but they all go out the window when you see a movie.
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Related When I go to see a movie, if I can't engage emotionally then it doesn't affect me and I can't get an... TONI COLLETTE I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When yo... SEBASTIAN HORSLEY We're making a movie, and I think we're making a really good movie. When it comes out, if they still... DANIEL CRAIG If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know wh... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. Whe... EMMANUELLE BEART When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you... JONAH HILL But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and... BRAD BIRD There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like... JON FAVREAU When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. OLIVER STONE But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you... LAURIE VIERA RIGLER Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you'... TOM WAITS When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th... MARK WATERS When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. OLIVER STONE When you create a movie, you create something in your image. JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well. GARY COLE You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army ta... JERRY JONES Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you ge... JONAH HILL I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pict... CHRIS EVANS To me, going to a race, it's an event. It's almost like going to a movie. Just because you went to a... BRYAN HERTA I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's... TYLER PERRY It's not when you get drafted, it's what you make of the opportunity. To me it doesn't really matter... DAN STEVENSON Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it a... EVE ARDEN 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 I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movi... SAOIRSE RONAN You give up your summer. When you're in town, you see people going to a movie and you remember what ... DAVE SIMPSON When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess. DAVID MACKENZIE If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrat... AL PACINO You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you ... DOUGRAY SCOTT I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in ... JULIA ROBERTS The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's jus... ALFONSO CUARON What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie,... BEN AFFLECK It seemed like in the States, you could make a cheap movie if it was a horror movie, and it could lo... SAM RAIMI When you only get one hit and you don't score a run, there's nothing you can do about it on defense ... BETH BEHRINGER When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a go... THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has ch... TOM ATKINS Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h... NEIL GAIMAN [With all the hoopla surrounding objectivity in Moore's documentary, the filmmaker actually makes no... MICHAEL MOORE You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system ha... TOM ATKINS The one thing you can take out of an experience like ('The Island') is, hopefully, some wisdom, ... ... WALTER PARKES When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give y... ROBIN GIBB When filmmakers make a movie, they make a movie for the large screen. TERRELL FALK But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there ... BILLY HIGGINS [Murray] got out of it, and so will we. We just cannot give up. It's not like they are going to make... LUKE ZELLER When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people. GARY COLE Unlike a movie, you kind of learn things about yourself every week, ... When you get a new script, y... ANNABELLA SCIORRA There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it... GEORGE A. ROMERO If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experie... TED SARANDOS I know that you and your girls have been told for years on end that you just don’t pass up any opp... STEVE HARVEY When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all k... JARED LETO When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly chan... BAILEE MADISON You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a... AMY HECKERLING A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on... HARUKI MURAKAMI I just wanted to make a movie about love and jealousy, ... but in an environment that you don't ofte... STEVEN SODERBERGH I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but ... RIDLEY SCOTT Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in t... ROBERT DUVALL I think they all stick with you when you lose. You go back and you take a look at the film. But that... MIKE SHANAHAN You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out.... EDDIE MURPHY You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot. QUENTIN BLAKE It's a funny movie, too. People may wonder what's going on when they hear that about a movie that ha... DAVID CRONENBERG I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world ri... BLAIR UNDERWOOD I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and ... EMMA STONE Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out ... KATE BUSH When you look at the world through a window it looks so peaceful and harmless ,but looks can be very... GARY F EVANS... Nothing good comes easily. You have to lose things you thought you loved, give up things you thought... SHAUNA NIEQUIST I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I a... ZACH GILFORD When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is. ADAM MCKAY Never buy a car without having a mechanic look at it. When a car's put up on a lift, that's when you... JEFF OSEROFF At times our life is like a movie in a foreign language.By the time you understand what it is all ab... PRABHA If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t... DONALD MILLER I love the movie previews... you know... Why is it whenever you're watching a movie preview you alwa... JIM GAFFIGAN "I love the movie previews... you know... Why is it whenever you're watching a movie preview you alw... JIM GAFFIGAN All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it. CHEVY CHASE When you look at movies like 'Titanic,' they make money because of women. They go to see it ... DAVID RAMSEY Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquo... DEAN KOONTZ When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like... BYRON HOWARD But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topo... NORMAN MACLEAN With a hologram, like when your teacher is one of them, if you aren’t looking right at them, they ... M.T. ANDERSON When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there'... ADAM GREEN There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it... GEORGE A. ROMERO ..."But what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wonder... A.A. MILNE When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans loo... JACK RODMAN I was going to be left alone on my butt at the other end of the continent. But why think about that ... JACK KEROUAC There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, ... TATE TAYLOR You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script. CURTIS HANSON When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow... LARRY KING I'm still waiting for a Farmville movie. You pay to get in, but to see the whole movie you have to a... TONY RAMIREZ When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?'... DREW GODDARD Not bad for a mom and pop shop. It feels like we've still got a long way to go but it's a good accom... MARK WOOD When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because t... MONICA BELLUCCI Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h... NEIL GAIMAN Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie. BRENDAN FEHR You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion dri... ALLISON ANDERS The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - f... JENNA FISCHER That was too goddamn long. They just gabbed and gabbed. There are so many bad movies out there. They... CONRAD BROOKS When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter. JEANETTE CORON You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work ... EDDIE MURPHY There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie. DICK WOLF 'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respe... MAX LANDIS 'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graph... KYRIE IRVING
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PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised... PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t... PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr... PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it... PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t... PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi... PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&... PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it... PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don... PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const... PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ... PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra... PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting... PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don... PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta... PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr... PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much. PATRICK DEMPSEY In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering... PATRICK DEMPSEY I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought... PATRICK DEMPSEY With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi... PATRICK DEMPSEY If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury. PATRICK DEMPSEY The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c... PATRICK DEMPSEY Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed... PATRICK DEMPSEY You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house. PATRICK DEMPSEY I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid... PATRICK DEMPSEY I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ... PATRICK DEMPSEY I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman. PATRICK DEMPSEY People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously. PATRICK DEMPSEY I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ... PATRICK DEMPSEY