Robert Zemeckis Quotes

American - Director | May 14, 1952 -

You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.

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I'm very concerned that we don't make movies that are original anymore.

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The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

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I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.

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USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

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'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' and 'Used Cars' were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it's not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.

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Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.

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Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

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We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance.

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I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.

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Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

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It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.

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