“Watch movies. Read screenplays. Let them be your guide. […] Yes, McKee has been able to break down how the popular screenplay… — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside… — Valerie Azlynn Copy Share Image
'Seanan McGuire' is my real name; if I'm being silly and third-person about it, she's a frequently cranky, foul-mouthed Disney Princess on… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was in all 'The Mighty Ducks' movies, and that sort of created this weird thing when… — Elden Henson Copy Share Image
The audience simply don't find a heroine picking a fight with 10 guys as convincing as a hero. So the industry always… — Priyamani Copy Share Image
I came in with a very specific idea about what a Doctor Strange movie should be, which was rooted in the comics,… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both… — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies,… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
The way I love monsters is a Mexican way of loving monsters, which is that I am not judgmental. The Anglo way… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Occasionally I'll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder.… — Lee Unkrich Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the… — Edward McPherson Copy Share Image
People find it difficult to call Lars' movies feminist. But they're humanist movies because they show a woman going through life and… — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
An actor can never voice his opinion through films. All an actor does is convey what the director and writer want to… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I don't really hang out with actors. I don't really like talking about it in my free time. I like talking about… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A James Bond film can be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex, and it can be interesting. I consider… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of, 'Oh the movies looked good but there's no story,' but I disagree with that in theory, and… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm… — Marques Houston Copy Share Image
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I like working fast, but I got to the age where the real difference between television and the movies is, I'm not… — William Devane Copy Share Image
The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
I started working as a kid doing dubbing, and then I started doing television when I was 11 or 12, and then… — Caroline Dhavernas Copy Share Image
Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
When you make movies, people come up and retouch your hair and makeup all day. So what starts out as very light… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
My impression of Las Vegas was in the movies and on TV. So we were all gonna go see somebody perform -… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
If someone fires a gun in a movie, it should always be a big deal. I don't like movies where someone shoots… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
The little town I was brought up in, I'd go to the film society to these very extreme sorts of films that… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out… — Christopher Young Copy Share Image
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