Film Repetition Quotes

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.

You can't repeat the success of any movie.

I saw 'Brooklyn' so many times.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

There are a lot of other movies I've done multiple times, like Werewolf Of Washington, where I really get tired of watching it.

The talented actor needs craft. When you do a stage play, you do it once each night in chronological order. In a film you're going to wind up doing a scene 15-20 times, just by the nature of the process. If I tell you a joke once, it's funny. The more times I tell, the less funny it is. How do you get to the point where you can laugh again? You also may have to cry again and again.

I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.

I saw 'The Sting' about 35 times and 'Jeremiah Johnson' and 'Billy Jack' about 50 times.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

The last thing I wanted to do was 'Battlestar Galactica.' I thought, 'I've done sci-fi. I did 'Blade Runner.' I don't have to do anything more.'

There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?