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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. -- John Podhoretz
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. -- Conrad Hall
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. -- Doug Liman
I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history. -- Asghar Farhadi
In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on. -- Brian Michael Bendis
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. -- Scarlett Johansson
I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history. -- Brian Austin Green
I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.' -- Karla Souza
France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. -- Christina Aguilera
Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. -- Oscar Isaac
We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers. -- Noreena Hertz
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. -- Eric Stoltz
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool... you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past. -- Valerie Azlynn
I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book. -- Hailee Steinfeld
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. -- Drew Barrymore
I was fortunate because my mum shared my love of film with me, so we would go to the movies twice, three times a week, and we would watch movies at home. As a teenager, instead of going out, we would have these huge movie nights in. But I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. -- Brenton Thwaites
There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean. -- Ed Speleers
Movies are like writing history with lightning. -- Woodrow Wilson
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. -- Steven Spielberg
Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects. -- Todd Phillips
A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies. -- Nelson DeMille
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence. -- Pauline Kael
I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things. -- Wesley Morris
People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho. -- Marc Almond
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. -- George Lucas
Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history. -- Nicolas Cage
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood. -- Lily Collins

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