Film Quotes - Page 3

• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

  Will Ferrell

  School, Night, Water

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• A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Movie, Film Directing, Independent Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

  Will Rogers

  Education, Gambling, One Thing

  Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949) ch. 6

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• Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

  Theodore Levitt

  Photography, Memories, Great Advertising

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• Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Scholar

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• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Art, Gambling

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

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• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

  Movie, Eye, Film Directing

  1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.

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• Film spectators are quiet vampires.

  Jim Morrison

  Movie, Vampire, Actors

  Jim Morrison (1970). “The lords, and The new creatures: poems”

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• All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.

  Vittorio Storaro

  Art, Decisions You Make, Light

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• Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Blessing, Way

  "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• I’ve noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas for a lot of photographers who have only ever worked in digital, the relationship between the photographer and the person who they’re taking a picture of sort of doesn’t exist anymore. They’re looking at a computer screen as opposed to the person.

  Keira Knightley

  People, Digital, Photographer

  "Keira Knightley By Patrick Demarchelier". Interview with Patrick Demarchelier, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 23, 2014.

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• You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Age

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• I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

  Sally Menke

  Appreciation, Art, Perspective

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• The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Music, Art, Book

  Closing remarks at an eClass forum in Barnes & Noble University, December 05, 2004.

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• I wish I knew how to quit you.

  Annie Proulx

  Movie, Romantic, Real Love

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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• You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Romantic, Best Love, Kissing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.195, Hamilton Books

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• I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

  John Green

  Movie, Romantic, Real Love

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• The greatest thing you'll ever learn
  Is just to love and be loved in return.

  Eden Ahbez

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Song: 'Nature Boy'". 1948.

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• Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

  Julia Roberts

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Great Year

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

  Michael Douglas

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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