#films

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee. ↗

— LL Cool J

#actor #bruce #bruce lee #charisma #everything

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#aid #clauses #dominance #effort #end

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#doing #films #go #good #good reason

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#action #action films #around #career #casting

I personally like to do independent films. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#i #independent #independent films #like #personally

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? ↗

— Famke Janssen

#body needs #boxed #comedy #drama #everybody

I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#classes #ended #even #films #go

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#columbia #ended #films #i #literature

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#ended #films #giant #had #i

I took two years away from making films to write a novel. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#films #i #making #novel #took