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And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
Ridley Scott on movies

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
Mark Wahlberg on movies

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
Mark Wahlberg on movies

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
Sam Mendes on movies

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.
Mark Wahlberg on movies

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
Selma Blair on movies

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Sam Mendes on movies

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
Selma Blair on movies

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Sam Mendes on movies

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
Sam Mendes on movies

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.
Janeane Garofalo on movies

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
Sam Mendes on movies

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Tom Clancy on movies

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
Sam Mendes on movies

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
George A. Romero on movies

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
Sam Mendes on movies

Movies are about escape.
George A. Romero on movies

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
Sam Mendes on movies

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
George A. Romero on movies

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
Julie Taymor on movies