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> [Life is a movie. You write your own script, direct and star in your own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isiahnunn/life-is-a-movie-you-write-your-own-script-direct-and-star-in-your-own/)

[IsiahNunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isiahnunn/)

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> [When I write a movie, I write it for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taylor-sheridan/when-i-write-a-movie-i-write-it-for-me/)

[Taylor Sheridan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taylor-sheridan/)

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> [I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-schaal/i-prefer-writing-for-myself-to-perform-i-guess-but-if-i-had-to-choose/)

[Kristen Schaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-schaal/)

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> [Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-penn/well-i-think-that-when-you-direct-a-movie-or-write-it-and-in-the-case/)

[Sean Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-penn/)

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> [Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/domenico-dolce/each-of-our-collections-is-like-a-movie-we-write-the-script-and-this/)

[Domenico Dolce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/domenico-dolce/)

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> [It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-thompson/it-s-about-time-a-55-year-old-british-woman-is-the-heroine-of-an/)

[Emma Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-thompson/)

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> [Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-le-carre/novelists-are-not-equipped-to-make-a-movie-in-my-opinion-they-make/)

[John le Carre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-le-carre/)

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> [There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tate-taylor/there-s-the-movie-you-write-there-s-the-movie-you-shoot-and-the-movie/)

[Tate Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tate-taylor/)

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> [Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cameron-crowe/conception-of-a-film-starts-with-the-music-always-i-hear-the-movie/)

[Cameron Crowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cameron-crowe/)

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> [ Roger \[Corman\] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP \[American International Pictures\], the studio that made the picture, which… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/curtis-hanson/roger-corman-didn-t-actually-hire-me-though-i-was-hired-by-aip/)

[Curtis Hanson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/curtis-hanson/)

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