Best Film Quotes

• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

  Thomas Harris

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

  "The Silence of the Lambs". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

  George Lucas

  War, Jedi Knights, Books And Movies

  George Lucas, Sally Kline (1999). “George Lucas: Interviews”, p.208, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Nice, Great Year

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• The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

  Edward Norton

  Narrative, Documentaries, Kind

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• I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

  Andrew Sarris

  Hate, Angel, Blue

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• I am the best film director in the world.

  Lars von Trier

  Directors, World, Film

  Lars Von Trier Is "The Best Director In The World" by Zachary Wigon, www.tribecafilm.com. October 19, 2009 |.

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• We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Film, Be Good

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• I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he does deals in comedy and he co-produces with Will Farrell, people don't really give it the credit that it deserves. I think that they actually do great screenwriting and they make great films, very entertaining.

  Bun B

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

  Demian Bichir

  Thinking, Want, Oscars

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• I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fighting, Thinking, Film

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• I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?

  Tim Roth

  Thinking, Directors, Different

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

  Joseph Cotten

  Men, Doubt, Shadow

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• Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

  Kathleen Turner

  Passion, Done, Film

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• At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

  Michael Haneke

  Jumping, Giving, Flight

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• I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

  John Hawkes

  Men, Film, Grapes

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• I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Done, Way

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