Film Quotes - Page 10

• Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

  Alexander Payne

  Change, Hollywood Films, Trying

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• I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.

  Steve Sabol

  Heart, Decision, Littles

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• For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Order, Sound

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

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• I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will not let go. I do not accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it...forever. Or at least I'm going to try.'

  Jason Silva

  Letting Go, Thinking, Forever

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• There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Orange, Rope

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• Real film is light; digital is electricity.

  Aki Kaurismaki

  Real, Light, Digital

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• Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

  David Cronenberg

  Philosophy, Vision, Kind

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• When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Differences, Mind, Doe

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

  Oliver Stone

  Missing, Popcorn, Next

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• When I connect to my soul, project it into another #‎ character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of #‎ acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Character, Joy, Soul

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• There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

  George A. Romero

  Thinking, Objectivity, Years

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• Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

  Renee Zellweger

  Money, Obscure, Bigs

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• So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

  David Strathairn

  Thinking, Energy, Making Money

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• I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

  Akshay Kumar

  Years, Promise, Fans

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• Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Home, Grandchildren, July

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• When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

  Shane West

  Scripts, Kind, Shows

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• A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

  Jim Henson

  People, Done, Ends

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.39, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Flower, Roots, Tree

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage

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• The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

  Michel Gondry

  Block, Constructs

  Interview with Sandra Hebron, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

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• Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Hollywood, Making Money

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• There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  Zac Posen

  Artist, Careers, People

  "Just A Minute With: Fashion designer Zac Posen". Interview with Reuters Staff, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2007.

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• I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

  Nicole Kidman

  Matter, Extremes, Subjects

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 08, 2016

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• Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

  James Dean

  Dark, Light, Tears

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• Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  Aaron Koblin

  Technology, Interesting, Long

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