Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe guys that do have the confidence to hit on me are not necessarily my type, but they think they are because I'm a pop star; I sing songs, do movies. I like to feel sexy and confident on stage.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm going to keep making clothes, I'm going to do more movies, and I'm always going to rap.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
Copy Quote View & ShareOne of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.
Copy Quote View & ShareI like flying to New York from London. It's like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing.
Copy Quote View & SharePeople are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.
Copy Quote View & ShareEgyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Copy Quote View & ShareI just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.
Copy Quote View & ShareI am a big movie buff. So, I make sure I watch two-three movies a week, not many because I don't want to get addicted.
Copy Quote View & ShareI made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
Copy Quote View & ShareMovies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Copy Quote View & ShareI watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
Copy Quote View & ShareThe greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just genre movies, either, and it's not just about twists. I saw 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' four times in the theater before I realized it's a love story. I love that.
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