— For example, I'm responsible for 19 of the 20 top-grossing films of all time.
— Nineteen?
— Yeah. The one about the kid by himself in his house burglars trying to come in and he fights them off I had nothing to do with that one. Somebody sold their soul to Satan to get grosses up on that piece of shit.
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
You people. If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?
Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films
On winning the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for Gisaengchung (2019).
The real ones want fictional lives, the fictional ones want real lives.
— You're Norma Desmond! You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big!
— I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
I came to Hollywood over 60 years ago and immediately fell in love with motion pictures. And it's a love affair that's lasted a lifetime. When I first arrived in Tinseltown, there were no cineplexes or multiplexes. No such thing as a Blockbuster or DVD. I was here before conglomerates owned the studios. Before pictures had special effects teams. And definitely before
box office results were reported like... Like baseball scores on the nightly news.
Cinema is a truly valuable means of connecting people.
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