Blockbuster Quotes - Page 2

• When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

  Al Franken

  Writing, Tv Shows, Worry

  Senate hearing on COICA, arstechnica.com. February 16, 2011.

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• One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

  Jeff Daniels

  Needs, Attention, Noble

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

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• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  Karen Allen

  Independent, People, Interesting

  "Interview: Karen Allen and the Kingdom of Her Crystal Life". Interview with PatrickMcD, hollywoodchicago.com. September 29, 2009.

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• I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Opportunity, Film, Turned Down

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

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• Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Directors, May

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

  Kelly Reilly

  Careers, Pinnacle, Turns

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

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• I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

  Rupert Sanders

  Emotional, Thinking, Needs

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• Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

  Julie Walters

  Drama, Interesting, Television

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

  Paul A. Offit

  Vaccines, Makers, Bigs

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?

  James Morcan

  Book, Technology, What If

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

  David Yates

  Drama, Hollywood Films, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

  Josh Duhamel

  Thinking, Careers, Done

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• We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Taken, Mean, Competition

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• I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  People, Missing, Atmosphere

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• The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Needs, Paper

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• Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

  Ashley Jensen

  Mind, Scottish, Accents

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• Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.

  Jack Du Brul

  Character, Might, Unbearable

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• It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

  Matthew Rhys

  Cutting, Thinking, Careers

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• In 2006, the Blockbuster board got together and said, ‘Do you know anyone using Netflix.’ …Look how that worked out. That is what happens when you put ten 80-year-old guys in a room…Be on record. Be on the right side of history. You don’t want to be the person that supported the Blockbuster decision.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Years, Guy, Decision

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• What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every now and then I'd be in this science fiction blockbuster that would re-introduce the character and me to a lot of audiences around the world and allow me to go back and do the smaller films again, so it was really a good balance for me.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, Character, Balance

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• But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did
  they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Deployment, Principles, Events

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

  Harry Shearer

  Play, Hey, Christmas Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

  Sara Sheridan

  Summer, Writing, Long

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• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  Patrick Swayze

  Hollywood, Feds, Fed Up

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• I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

  Linda Grant

  Dream, Wake Up, Action

  "Linda Grant: a life in writing". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

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