Bad Movies Quotes - Page 2

• There's no thief like a bad movie.

  Sam Ewing

  Thieves, Cinema

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• You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

  Cheech Marin

  Catholic, Being Played, Clergy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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• In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.

  Roger Ebert

  Achievement, World

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• I really love the Marvel universe, one of my favorite is Daredevil. I really love also the Punisher and I don't understand why they made so many bad movies on that character.

  Xavier Gens

  Character, Punisher, My Favorite

  "‘Hitman’ Director Sets His Sights on Daredevil". screenrant.com. April 30, 2009.

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• You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

  John Gielgud

  Good Movie, Hollywood, Film

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• I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Painful Experiences, Watches

  "The Hot Seat: Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan". Interview with Amy Plitt, www.timeout.com. July 15, 2012.

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• Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."

  James Berardinelli

  Delight, May, Able

  Review of "Van Helsing", reelviews.net, 2004.

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• A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do.

  Joel Surnow

  Good Movie, Needs, Scripts

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• The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Stars, Real, Good Movie

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• I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

  Paul Scheer

  Now And Then, Knows, Seeing

  "Paul Scheer picks his favorite How Did This Get Made? episodes". Interview with Nathan Rabin, aux.avclub.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

  Simon Kinberg

  Love Is, Miserable, Like You

  "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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• I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

  Michael Madsen

  Son, Decision, Done

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

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• Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

  Willem Dafoe

  Crazy, Successful, Good Movie

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Good Movie, Motto

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.282, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Views, People

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• If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Movie, Years, Two

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• Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

  Gene Tierney

  Helpful, Found, Stage

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• Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Phones, Cliche

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• My Heart I'm not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time, I don't prefer one "strain" to another. I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie, not just a sleeper, but also the big, overproduced first-run kind. I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar. And if some aficionado of my mess says "That's not like Frank!," all to the good! I don't wear brown and grey suits all the time, do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera, often. I want my feet to be bare, I want my face to be shaven, and my heart--you can't plan on the heart, but the better part of it, my poetry, is open.

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Heart, Feet

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.231, Univ of California Press

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• The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

  Walker Percy

  Memorable, People, Treasure

  The Moviegoer ch. 1 (1961)

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• He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.

  Richard Russo

  Summer, Memories, Kissing

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Jul 31, 2016

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• It was like a bad movie except he didn’t actually twirl his mustache.” -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Mustache, Jace

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• But it was Valentine. I saw him. In fact, he had the Sword with him when he came down to the cells and taunted me through the bars. It was like a bad movie, except he didn't actually twirl his mustache. - Jace Wayland

  Cassandra Clare

  Valentine, Cells, Mustache

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• It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

  George Clooney

  Good Movie, Directors, Scripts

  "Bedside manner". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2002.

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