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An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Montgomery Clift

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A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

Me Business People I Am Movie Business Reference Am Knows Lot Movie Nobody Point Really Who

You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

You Like Make Appreciated Embraced Respected Movie

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

William Friedkin

Funny Sex Think Always Kind Looks Movie Really

I like to do a movie, to be on it 8, 10 weeks. It evolves as you're working on it. Little things come to you every day. It's a slow process, and when you have to pack it into a short period of time, which you do for television, the experience is not one that I cherish. So if it's going to be television, it's really got to be the right thing.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

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You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Work You Matter Well Emotionally Intellectually Director Movie

If anything, I'm overacting in the ring because of the facials and the body language. I want the guy in the cheap seats to be able to see what I'm thinking, the expression on my face. But when you're filming a movie, it could be a two- or three-camera shot, and you're doing it over and over and over again. It's not live TV; it's a lot different.

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

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I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

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Even in the Pixar and DreamWorks animated movies, there are themes that could be taken into an adult area very easily. 'Zootopia,' I think, is the closest so far; I love that movie because they really did push the envelope as far as the ideas and writing of an animated film for families.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

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Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

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I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

Name Same Because Been Flattered Mentioned Sentence Ton Any Movie Role Them

Not everybody's life is a movie.

Life Life Is A Everybody Movie

I've had kids come to me and say, 'Oh, I loved your movie when I was a kid, and I became a marine biologist.' It's crazy.

Jason James Richter

Me Crazy Your Loved Biologist Marine Became Come Had Kid Kids Movie Oh Say

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

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Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

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