Film Quotes - Page 12

• I get bored with the same old film coming out every weekend. It feels like it's the same story all the time, and the same visuals, and the characters' dilemmas are remarkably similar.

  Josh Hartnett

  Character, Weekend, Bored

  "Josh Hartnett Talks BUNRAKU and Roland Joffe’s SINGULARITY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 30, 2011.

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• It's not just women in film, 18-year-old girls feel pressure to do preventative injecting. I see someone's face, someone's body who has had children and I think, they're the song lines of your experience, and why would you want to eradicate that? I look at people sort of entombing themselves and all you see is their little pin holes of terror... and you think, just live your life, death is not going to be any easier just because your face can't move.

  Cate Blanchett

  Girl, Song, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.

  Kelly Preston

  Priorities, Together, Firsts

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• I feel like I could never walk around a film half-naked. I definitely wouldn't want to see that.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Naked, Half, Want

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• I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Thinking, Important, Happenings

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• I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Masters, Painter

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• Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures dealing with the folklore of Negro life, were commercially feasible. This was a sign of growth that had occurred in the United States and throughout the world.

  Harry Belafonte

  Artist, Office, Growth

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• Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

  Rose Byrne

  Song, Art, Book

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

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• You always want your films to go as far as they can.

  Sally Hawkins

  Want

  "Sally Hawkins: 'You think adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be capable'". Interview With Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

  Emile Hirsch

  New York, Independent, Thinking

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• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Television, Artistic, Artistic Freedom

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• Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Movie, Art, Able

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• Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

  Amy Poehler

  Beautiful, People, Television

  "70th Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!

  Sienna Miller

  Judgement, Nervous, Judgement Day

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• A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

  David Fincher

  Makers, Made, Audience

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

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• I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Thinking, Horror

  "Cronenberg on Cronenberg". Book by David Cronenberg, 1997.

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• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Emotional, People, Creative

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Thinking, Would Be, Cost

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• There’s always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.

  Spike Lee

  Psych, Thinking, People

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

  Sara Sheridan

  Art, Pieces, Painting

  "Begbie's Victorian Edinburgh collection - it belongs to us all" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2011.

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• I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

  Alan J. Pakula

  Passion, Careers, Trying

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• When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Smile, Fun, Mean

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• I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Lucky, Slacker

  "March 27, 1998". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Cinema, Lasts, Saws

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• I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

  Vir Das

  Bored, Comedian, Routine

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