It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would... -Gerard Butler

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.

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I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going....

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was ...

The problem with my mind is it sways from side to side. The idea of me fantasizing about becoming an actor quickly led to depression. 'No, it was neve...

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for....

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of w...

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, ...

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to b...

My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad....

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...

The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where ...

In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...

I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....

I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...

I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...