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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

In the past I have made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can not really hate them. You can discard them, but you can not really hate them.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I was not making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

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

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as Tarzan.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as Tarzan and in programs such as Ramar of the Jungle and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

I think that is what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There is no melodrama there is no device, It is just about a human being.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

I do not like comedy. I like funny things. I do not like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, Oh Jesus.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that is there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.