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I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#become #days #different #exposed #human

'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#between #complaint #difference #dramatic #either

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#basis #because #being #birth #changes

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#journalism #most #people #read #rock

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#everything #funny #i #i think #make

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#bottom #different #different view #entirely #frog

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#did #ever #industry #more #movie

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#critics #i #learned #lot #movies

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#movies #over #scary #scary movies #special