I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
If you're good at something, never do it for free.
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?
I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
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