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Related When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability... ADAM RAPP A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it b... MALIN AKERMAN The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact... ANTONY JAY A lot of films come out before they're finished. ED HARRIS All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us. YAHOO SERIOUS You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much eithe... IMOGEN POOTS There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamW... HENRY SELICK If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We... NEILL BLOMKAMP As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a fi... KARAN JOHAR I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... DAVID CRONENBERG Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of m... TONI COLLETTE Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing. DOUGRAY SCOTT Action films unfortunately don't let you spend a lot of time sitting. So you don't have much... CHRIS PINE You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those fi... VIN DIESEL When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you ... ANNASOPHIA ROBB I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or ... DUNCAN JONES I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 fo... TOM HARDY If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the ba... TOM HOOPER Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to... DAVID SPADE That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot o... LIEV SCHREIBER An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abun... DANIEL PAULY I've been influenced by a lot of films. And a lot of them are the typical interesting, artsy fil... PATTY JENKINS However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individua... BRUCE MCCULLOCH I was in 'Cliffhanger' years ago, so I'm a massive fan of the big event movies - the goo... CRAIG FAIRBRASS You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're... CALVIN JOHNSON Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu... HAROLD RAMIS I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's bla... F. GARY GRAY The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th... HAYDEN PANETTIERE You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that ar... SAFFRON BURROWS When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we sti... LINDSAY LOHAN Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of... ALISTAIR OVEREEM You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at t... DON NELSON The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pip... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in... ADRIAN LYNE I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - g... YASH CHOPRA When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the r... ADAM D'ANGELO I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if ... DAVID R. ELLIS You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them,... ELLEN HOLLMAN The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good f... ERIQ LA SALLE You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is record... ART BUCHWALD Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go... DAVID MACKENZIE Consistency is very important when you're making films. IAN MCDIARMID There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a... JON FAVREAU Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvemen... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The oppos... DONNA BRAZILE When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ... KIEFER SUTHERLAND I went to the U.S. to start my modeling career at a very young age. So, venturing into films and han... AMY JACKSON If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't th... DAVID BELLE I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, ... PADDY CONSIDINE I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films t... MIKE BIRBIGLIA What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year f... AARON PAUL If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're bi... SHANE SMITH You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not q... DANNY ELFMAN There are wonderful films that become studio films, but they're conceived independently. That... DAVID CARRADINE I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique wo... MARTIN FREEMAN Walt Disney wasn't making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really c... PETE DOCTER You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage ... MORGAN SPURLOCK Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six... JAMES WAN You don't have to look like an Under Armour mannequin to be an athlete. A lot of people probably... PRINCE FIELDER The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're... ELON MUSK With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make... BELLAMY YOUNG Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're e... BRIAN BOSWORTH You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces bet... KEITH JARRETT I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver... JOHN ABRAHAM The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes. PATRICIA CLARKSON 'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster. JACKIE EARLE HALEY Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, be... LANA PARRILLA Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did... FRANK DARABONT One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children'... GURINDER CHADHA Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films. DAVID NICHOLLS My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny... AARON YOO But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mi... AL ALVAREZ Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because ... ZACHARY LEVI I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don... LEONARD MALTIN You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. MICHAEL MOORE I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo c... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can dire... GUY RITCHIE You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just w... AUSTIN BUTLER 'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage ... JAMES MCAVOY 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's be... NAT WOLFF I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a s... RAFAEL NADAL The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a g... BARRY EISLER Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't. GEORGE A. ROMERO When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact ar... ELMER BERNSTEIN I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doin... ELI ROTH I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They'r... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that.... JEFF NICHOLS All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment ... LARRY COHEN They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but t... DAVID R. ELLIS The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are... SALMAN KHAN It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been wh... HELEN MIRREN Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter... everyone thinks that I could definitely pull... CHRISSY TEIGEN It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blam... AKKINENI NAGARJUNA I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reco... TIM BURTON I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile. SIMONE SIGNORET You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantas... JEAN ALESI It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don... BRYAN BROWN Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to ... VISWANATHAN ANAND When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about t... VENUS WILLIAMS
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