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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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Trying, World, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

  David Heyman

  Trying, Film, Gravy

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• Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

  Lucy Walker

  Ambition, People, Different

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

  Domhnall Gleeson

  Old Things, People, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good but don't bet on it. It's one of the best films of the year.

  Joel Siegel

  Years, Potters, Hogwarts

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• Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.

  Matt Charman

  School, Opposites, Sitting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

  Robert Englund

  Venice, World, Festivals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• David O. Russell's best films are thrilling high wire acts that run the moment to moment risk of tumbling to the ground. In his latest, "Joy," Russell has more trouble than usual keeping his balance on the wire.

  David O. Russell

  Running, Joy, Risk

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• You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Trying, Roles, Purpose

  "Collider Watches 15 Minutes of DESPICABLE ME (Video Blog Recap) Plus Interview With Producer Chris Meledandri". Group interview, collider.com. February 10, 2010.

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• And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

  Ethan Hawke

  Design, Acting, Elements

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  School, Kids, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

  Peter Travers

  Years, Careers, Film

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