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I`m flattered if someone comes to me with the idea of remaking one of my films. Remake or original, making a movie still comes down to old-fashioned hard work. If it`s based on another film, well, so be it. Remakes have been part of cinema since its earliest days - think of A Star Is Born (1937), which was remade numerous times. And they`re especially big right now because it`s become increasingly difficult to lure audiences into theaters. Advertising a remade title that may be familiar to audiences can hopefully cut through the clutter of titles and products that one sees.

- John Carpenter

The money isn`t a lure. I`ve done very well out of this business.

- Julie Walters

There is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money. - Sterling Hayden after filming "Johnny Guitar"

- Sterling Hayden

They wouldn`t hit bait, not even live mullet. We were catching them with silver spoons. We dropped them to the bottom and jigged them up and down and the fight was on. The fish would hit as fast as you could get the lure back down again.

- Kathy Burke

They wouldn`t hit bait, not even live mullet, ... We were catching them with silver spoons. We dropped them to the bottom and jigged them up and down and the fight was on. The fish would hit as fast as you could get the lure back down again.

- Kathy Burke

If I can lure him away from academia, I`d be delighted.

- David Black

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

- Omar Khayyam

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

- Adrian Rushmore

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

- Alice Hoglan

(Book publishing has never had the money or the customer base to justify Hollywood`s wall-of-hype approach, but the old publicity paradigm of coaxing reviews and interviews in the book pages is now supplemented, and sometimes supplanted, by all sorts of new marketing schemes. Random House Australia, the local distributor of The Da Vinci Code , is taking its publicity campaigns to shopping malls and street corners to lure readers into bookstores.) There are 200 new titles out there a month, ... We are always looking for new ideas.

- Andy Penman

The lure of money is greater than ever. The minute they run a fast time, everyone`s whispering in their ear, telling them they ought to go pro. And every athlete wants to do it.

- Aya Traore