American Film Quotes - Page 3

• Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

  Dale Evans

  Children, Wife, Singers

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• I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

  Donnie Yen

  Couple, Years, Film

  Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

  Charlotte Rampling

  Character, Directors, Depth

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• The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Hollywood, Film

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• I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

  Kate Winslet

  Moving, Usa, Roles

  "Kate Winslet: Uncommon Sense". movieline.com. January 1, 1996.

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• America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

  Andrew Garfield

  Kids, Thinking, Land

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.

  Jackie Chan

  Directors, Ridiculous, Kind

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• I've never left my culture. I've left my country, but I've not left my culture. In the same way, you shouldn't be worried why George Lucas is going to the outer galaxy to make a movie. He's still making a film within his culture; he's making an American film. I go to Thailand or the Peruvian jungle, the Amazon, and I still make Bavarian films.

  Werner Herzog

  Country, Way, Amazon

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• American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Cinema, France

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• The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

  David Denby

  Actors, Film, Film Actors

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

  Gaspar Noe

  Thinking, Class, Cinema

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Cities, Mexico, Saws

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did a couple of little Off-Broadway things, but my first Broadway show was A History Of The American Film, written by Chris Durang. Swoosie Kurtz was one of the stars. It was a wonderful show. It closed in 40 performances. I think it was kind of ahead of its time.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The reason why I always wanted to make an American film was because of the Western genre. It is something that I would very much like to make in the future, because it's very uniquely American, and I can't make a Western film in Korean.

  Park Chan-wook

  Reason Why, Korean, Film

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 25, 2016.

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• Our film [Hide and seek ]was created as part of the Asian American Film Lab's 11th 72 Hour Film Shootout filmmaking competition, where filmmaking teams have just 72 hours to conceive, write, shoot, edit and submit a film based on a common theme. The winners were announced during the 38th Asian American International Film Festival in New York last July. The theme for 2015 was 'Two Faces' and was part of a larger more general theme of 'Beauty'.

  Garth Kravits

  New York, Team, Writing

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• I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve- to 20-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I'm not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Years, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were making a great American film. I honestly believe that Michael [Cimino] was under a tremendous amount of pressure, and Michael's response to pressure from what I saw was to double down and to get more aggressive and to get more kind of arrogant, but I don't think it was real. I think it was the response to pressure.

  Richard Masur

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing about The Departed, the x-factor that people can't quite put their finger on, is that it deals clearly with class and accent all these things that are fundamental to Boston, but previously anomalous or even prohibited in demotic American films.

  William Monahan

  Boston, Class, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

  Georgina Haig

  Publicity, Film, More Money

  Source: collider.com

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• I think one of the most important American films is "Jackie Brown", which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the 90s.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Powerful, Humble, Character

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• 'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

  James McAvoy

  Teenage, Fire, Sick

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• In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.

  Mohammed Saeed Harib

  Country, Giving, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

  Douglas Sirk

  Opportunity, Directors, Scandal

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• The crime film is the most honest American film.

  Andrew Dominik

  Honest, Film, Crime

  "Cannes 2012: Brad Pitt Says His New Crime Film Isn't an Attack on Obama" by Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 22, 2012.

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• I've done quite a few big American films.

  John Malkovich

  Done, Film, Bigs

  "John Malkovich Discusses Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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