Film Quotes - Page 15

• In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

  David Lynch

  Struggle, Life And Death, Amplify

  "Lost Highway". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, March 6, 1997.

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• For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

  Robert Bresson

  Real, Order, Sound

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

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• Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

  Geoff Thompson

  Block, Trying, Bother

  Geoff Thompson (1998). “The Art of Fighting Without Fighting: Techniques in Personal Threat Evasion”, p.36, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW

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• It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

  Bill Forsyth

  Mean, Comfort And Joy, Misunderstood

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• Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

  Alan Rickman

  Made, Force, Certain

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• I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

  Christopher Parker

  Theatre, Students, Fringe

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• My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

  Ivan Reitman

  Couple, Animal, House

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

  Frank Darabont

  Hate, Boys, Talking

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• There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

  Johnny Carson

  Book, Nannies, Goats

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• When I connect to my soul, project it into another #‎ character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of #‎ acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Character, Joy, Soul

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• I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

  John Malkovich

  Say Anything, Would Be, Use

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• Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

  Alexander Payne

  Change, Hollywood Films, Trying

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• I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.

  Steve Sabol

  Heart, Decision, Littles

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• There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Orange, Rope

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• Real film is light; digital is electricity.

  Aki Kaurismaki

  Real, Light, Digital

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• When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Differences, Mind, Doe

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with nature...and in fact the irony is that the film is about our relationship with nature and how our technological civilization has taken us several removes away from a truly natural existence and the consequences of that to us.

  James Cameron

  Taken, Civilization, Facts

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• I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

  Akshay Kumar

  Years, Promise, Fans

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• Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Home, Grandchildren, July

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• A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

  Jim Henson

  People, Done, Ends

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.39, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Flower, Roots, Tree

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage

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• Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Hollywood, Making Money

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• There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  Zac Posen

  Artist, Careers, People

  "Just A Minute With: Fashion designer Zac Posen". Interview with Reuters Staff, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2007.

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• Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

  James Dean

  Dark, Light, Tears

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• Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  Aaron Koblin

  Technology, Interesting, Long

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