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That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

So we had a couple of long conversations in France and once I thought this script was in pretty good shape, I sent it to her. I knew I wanted Glenn from the beginning. In fact, I had tried to gear the character towards her. Glenn is a single mom who lives in New York and does theater and film. She's a very strong, intelligent person in the way that Diana (her character) is, so I think she made herself very vulnerable to play this part.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.

We're sure the film will be a great success. We hope that the film will confirm our position as the greatest club in the world.

The new system is a digital offering that features the latest television shows as well as movies, games, music and more.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

That said, the movie has yet to draw the same level of attention in the domestic market, ... While we are hopeful that the film will continue its strong international run, given its overall performance to date we were required to make the adjustments we have reported today.

I actually just watched the film the other day, kind of analyzing and critiquing it. I didn't even watch the last two series. I just ended it that way.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

The combat units serving in Iraq and most of the supporting units serving in the theater will be replaced,

I happen to be one of the actors that was working at that time, which was during Black History Month. If you're not working in February, you'd better get yourself another job.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

He not only got an acting fee and participation in the gross, but he got a big hunk of the licensing and merchandising, which will net him, according to Variety, about 100 million.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Acting is very start and stop.

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

If the bare bones of the plot make To Live sound dry or intensely political, in fact it's utterly engrossing. That's because it's so beautifully made, ... Unlike Zhang's later films, it's not at all flashy. He has a very economical way of telling his story. There's very little wasted space in that film, nothing indulgent. It's gripping from start to finish, and all done with such grace, as we watch two ordinary people just trying to get by.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

This was an experiment - expanding the band and trying to make the music communicate in a different sort of way. Maybe that part of it didn't happen. But his performance is so stunning when you watch what he is actually doing. When we cut the film together in the present form, in the correct order, better angles, and you really focus on Jimi, ... you see what he is doing. He's conducting the orchestra. He's playing lead and rhythm at the same time. He's smoking a cigarette. He's doing five things at once. It's incredible.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

All he did was shake my hand and say thank you. And off he went into the trailer to go watch film.

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword. (E(lwyn)

I love movies so much I'm willing to put up with the fraud to see the movies I love.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way.

In a way, my film is a how-to about becoming an arms dealer, ... During the making of it, I needed guns in the Czech Republic, and it was cheaper to use real guns than replicas. I bought 3,000 Kalashnikovs and then sold them back at a loss. I wouldn't make a very good arms dealer.

I'll miss the relationships I have built with these actors. I'll miss the devotion we have to this work. Over this length of time, the tendency is to think it will never end.

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.

One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash.

simply because if you look at the music business, there aren't a lot of new artists that can fill up an arena. Realistically, some of the best music today is (by) people like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys (who) are more suited (to) the intimacy of a theater.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

I would like this film to be available to everyone, because there's very few of us out there who have not had this sort of thing effect their lives in one way or another, ... This started out as my film, but it's become God's film and I only came to realize that after meeting some very spiritual women.

I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to mesh. I didn't know how they were going to relate. But a lot of them came out of a certain Hollywood generation, so they all knew each other and it was like a reunion. When I felt that click, I breathed a sigh of relief.

There's something insanely sweet about him. And he is a very, very, very good-natured person. He is a truly kind person. I put him in some of the worst circumstances that you could put a human being in and there were homeless guys who I'd hired to be in the movie because I liked the way they looked, and they complained sooner than Elijah did.

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts is one of the most I believe that as a part of the educational process, each child should have access to a music education program. That is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.