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  • Bill Condon on movies

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    “No, ‘F/X 2’ was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn’t direct it but ‘Candyman’ and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It’s informed everything I’ve done, even the way scenes are shot in…

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  • Joel Silver on movies

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    “I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I’ve done here in the UK, I’ve done a bunch of films in Canada.” -Joel Silver

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  • Wesley Morris on movies

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    “In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It’s a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.” -Wesley Morris

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  • Ken Burns on movies

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    “I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.” -Ken Burns

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  • Lisa Loeb on movies

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    “The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.” -Lisa Loeb

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  • Kristen Bell on movies

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    “I’m carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get ‘Okaaaaaay, honey.’ I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.” -Kristen Bell

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  • Matthew Fox on movies

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    “I turn a lot of stuff down – big, big movies, the kind I wouldn’t want to go to the cinema to see.” -Matthew Fox

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  • Lance Bass on movies

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    “I’ve always been interested in making movies.” -Lance Bass

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  • Scott Caan on movies

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    “The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn’t have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.” -Scott Caan

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  • Jamie Bell on movies

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    “I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they’re so beautiful to look at. It’s such a shame we don’t make them anymore. Although, I don’t know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.” -Jamie Bell

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  • Jon Landau on movies

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    “It didn’t matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.” -Jon Landau

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  • Michael Moore on movies

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    “When I’m shooting a movie, I’m always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.” -Michael Moore

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  • Penny Marshall on movies

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    “I’ve directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.” -Penny Marshall

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  • John Hughes on movies

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    “At the time I came along, Hollywood’s idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!” -John Hughes

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  • Kate Hudson on movies

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    “Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?” -Kate Hudson

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  • Matt Damon on movies

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    “That’s the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nice guy or you’re a prick. If your movies do well, there’s a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It’s not any more complicated than that.” -Matt Damon

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  • Tim Heidecker on movies

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    “If you go to Sundance, the experience that I’ve had there as a viewer is… there’s like a hundred movies there, and you’ve got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don’t know anything about because it just works into your schedule.”…

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  • Jean Claude Van Damme on movies

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    “It’s time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I’m proud of. It’s time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I’m the king of video and…

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  • Shailene Woodley on movies

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    “I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I’m a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.” -Shailene Woodley

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  • David Cronenberg on movies

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    “The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That’s why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.” -David Cronenberg

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  • Frank Ocean on movies

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    “Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm…

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  • Julie Bowen on movies

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    “Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.” -Julie Bowen

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  • Ian MacKaye on movies

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    “I’m always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.” -Ian MacKaye

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  • Gary Ross on movies

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    “I love all the old classic Disney movies. ‘Pinocchio.’ There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I’m an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm’s fairy tales that I kind of…

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  • Ewan McGregor on movies

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    “The other two things are… well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.” -Ewan McGregor

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