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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
Liam Neeson on movies

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
Louis C. K. on movies

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
J. D. Salinger on movies

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
Kristen Stewart on movies

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
Catherine Deneuve on movies

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.
Catherine Deneuve on movies

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
Jet Li on movies

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
Keanu Reeves on movies

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
Billy Joel on movies

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
Ang Lee on movies

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
Ang Lee on movies

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
Ang Lee on movies

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
Ang Lee on movies

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
Ang Lee on movies

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
Ang Lee on movies

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
Ang Lee on movies

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
Ang Lee on movies

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
Meryl Streep on movies

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
Henry Louis Gates on movies

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
Henry Louis Gates on movies