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People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?
Ai Weiwei on movies

I like movies about failing.
Albert Brooks on movies

Movies are an expensive business.
Albert Brooks on movies

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Daniel H. Wilson on movies

I cast unusual people in my movies.
Albert Brooks on movies

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
Albert Brooks on movies

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.
Albert Brooks on movies

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
Albert Brooks on movies

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.
Albert Brooks on movies

My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
Albert Brooks on movies

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
Guy Ritchie on movies

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
Guy Ritchie on movies

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.
Emily Mortimer on movies

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.
Tina Turner on movies

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
Tina Turner on movies

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
Maureen O'Hara on movies

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
Maureen O'Hara on movies

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.
Emily Blunt on movies

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?
Emily Blunt on movies

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
Wallace Shawn on movies