American - Actor | September 25, 1944 -
'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.
Michael Douglas
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The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.
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My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.
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Every empire eventually falls.
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'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.
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With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.
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I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.
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I don't look good in tights. I know that.
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