Blockbuster Quotes

• Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

  Sean Penn

  Summer, Laughing, Looks

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• I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

  Miranda Richardson

  Acting, Roles, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

  Christopher Meloni

  Summer, Focus, Stronger

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• Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

  Eriq La Salle

  People, Spirituality, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.

  Colin Mochrie

  Beautiful, Sexy, People

  "10 Questions: Colin Mochrie" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 9, 2003.

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• I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

  Pam Grier

  Serious, Kind, Film

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• Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice.

  Eva Green

  America, Choices, Want

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• I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

  Randy Harrison

  Careers, Want, Kind

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• There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

  Paul Rudd

  Jobs, Stars, Taken

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• I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

  Leonard Maltin

  Kids, Independent, Class

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• Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Trying, Actors, Documentaries

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Rattle Interview, www.rattle.com. May 3, 2016.

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• Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

  James Garner

  People, Want, Film

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• I'm not blockbuster boy.

  Johnny Depp

  Boys

  "Johnny Depp | No 11". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

  Reed Hastings

  Mistake, Apples, Orange

  "Steve Jobs 'Saturday Night Live' Skit Hits Web" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 25, 2011.

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• I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.

  Reed Hastings

  Dvds, Years, Battle

  "Reed Hastings Knows He Messed Up". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2011.

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• The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

  Peter Jackson

  Movie, Becoming One, Actors

  "James Cameron, Peter Jackson on Film Technology". www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2009.

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• I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.

  Jorge Garcia

  Summer, Growing Up, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

  Rosie Perez

  Careers, Matter, Documentaries

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• Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

  Lea Thompson

  Fun, Creative, Littles

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• I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

  Samantha Morton

  Action, Huge

  "Young, gifted and gabby" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2000.

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• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Motivational, Successful, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

  Ricky Gervais

  Art, Thought Provoking, House

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don’t really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It’s become very franchise driven and superhero driven.

  Peter Jackson

  Technology, Superhero, Hollywood

  "Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens on 'The Hobbit,' a Missing Elf, and What's Next (EXCLUSIVE)". Interview with Drew Taylor, www.moviefone.com. December 19, 2014.

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• I'm not 'Blockbuster Boy.' I never wanted to be. I wasn't looking for that.

  Johnny Depp

  Boys, Wanted

  "Johnny be good" by Kevin Sessums, www.vanityfair.com. February 3, 1997.

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• For years, Blockbuster Video has edited movies. Like The Bad Lieutenant, when he's masturbating while the girls in the car are doing the thing. I rented it from Blockbuster and sped to that scene, and it was gone. I called up Blockbuster, and I'm like, "I got an erection, and the scene's not there."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Girl, Years

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