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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

I just love movies.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

I do enjoy animated movies.

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen."

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.