Film Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Writing, Directors, Would Be

  "Talking With Chiwetel Ejiofor". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

  John Cassavetes

  Humility, Want Something, Too Much

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• Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Beer, Crafts

  Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

  Christopher Doyle

  Thinking, Cameras, Actors

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

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• I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!

  Victor Mature

  Actors, Prove It, Prove

  "Trivia/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Reality, Our World

  Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”

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• Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Way, Fantastic, Danish

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• I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Fans, Reason, Bigs

  "Mads Mikkelsen on A Royal Affair: Q&A". The Star interview, www.thestar.com. January 31, 2013.

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• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Real, Way, Action

  FaceBook post by Mads Mikkelsen from Jun 02, 2016

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• I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fall, Clueless, Night

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• I always approach film as a fan.

  Michael Fassbender

  Fans, Approach

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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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• My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

  Logan Lerman

  Appreciate, Directors, Would Be

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• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  Nathan Lane

  New York, Emotional, Careers

  "If there's a mouse, call Lane - Actor didn't 'paws' before taking on film" by Betsy Pickle, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, December 17, 1999.

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• Ever since Poltergeist terrified me when I was 12, I can't watch horror films, I'm a real wuss.

  Josh Hartnett

  Real, Watches, Horror

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• 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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• I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Play, Theatre

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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 think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

  Christine Lahti

  Thinking, Different, Sexist

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• I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

  Morgan Saylor

  Couple, Thinking, Tv Shows

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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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• There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

  Phoebe Cates

  Two, Actors, Made

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• Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

  Ellen Page

  Holiday, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 31, 2011.

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