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en It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

en In the box-office slump of the last year, these movies are the only movies that audiences are responding to. Both Saw II and 'Hostel' were made for US$4 million, and they're beating movies that cost US$200 million dollars.

en There are four movies that got me into wanting to make movies: Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Jason and the Argonauts. Those are the movies that took me to different places when I was a kid. I fell in love with movies by watching those movies.

en Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.
  Pauline Kael

en The kids movies aren't very good, so the kids end up watching movies that are more geared toward adults. My 4-year-old wants to see 'Spider-Man.' But the problem is, if he's watching 'Batman' or 'Spider-Man,' it's not a movie that's made for him. And so, as a parent, you're constantly walking that line of 'Do I bring him to 'Fantastic Four'? Do I bring him to this?'

en Well, I was always a huge fan of the movies. I spent a great deal of time , as a a kid, watching movies. He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating.

en I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

en The obsession with this one individual at the expense of 11 million others is, in my view, wrong,

en To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.

en They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.

en If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million,

en I think there's an over-obsession with monthly numbers. We've now had two years in a row with over 2 million jobs added, and it looks like we're headed for a third year.

en [Fever Pitch was a modest hit in theatres, earning $42 million in the U.S. and Canada. The Farrellys expect to do better on DVD if this release follows the pattern of their other movies.] We have done really well by DVD, ... For instance, Kingpin did not do well ($25 million) and it was a smash hit on DVD. Check it out. It was the first movie that was ever No. 1 on DVD four weeks in a row that hadn't made at least $75 million. There's Something About Mary was a smash hit -- but it did way, way better on DVD. That's when the world sees it.

en This year there has been a bit of a slowdown. In 2004, 19 so-called scary movies generated just over a billion dollars. This year, we've had 20 of these movies generate $580 million.

en This year there has been a bit of a slowdown, ... In 2004, 19 so-called scary movies generated just over a billion dollars. This year, we've had 20 of these movies generate $580 million.


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