Film Quotes - Page 22

• Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

  Douglas Sirk

  Opportunity, Directors, Scandal

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• People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

  Fiona Shaw

  Relationship, People, Cameras

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

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• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

  Fay Wray

  Time, Care, Littles

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• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  Jack Valenti

  Understanding, Edginess, Nerves

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• You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

  Jay Roach

  People, Worry, Understanding

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

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• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Work, Hard Work, Hard

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• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

  James Woods

  Work, People, Steps

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• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  Sally Field

  People, Style, Television

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• There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

  Scott Speedman

  Writing, Style, Television

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

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• My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Kids, Boys, White

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• The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

  Richard Pryor

  Black, Church, Together

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• I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

  Michael Ironside

  Mean, Talking, Fifty

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• There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

  Mark Rydell

  Independent, Talking, Years

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• You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

  Robert Greenwald

  Tunnels, Talking, Years

  "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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• 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've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

  Christopher Nolan

  Risk, Trying, Want

  "Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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• There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Saving Private Ryan, Three, Proud

  "Broadcast Film critics name 'Saving Private Ryan' best film" by Paul Clinton, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1999.

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• A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

  Jean Renoir

  Children, Directors, Actors

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• If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Escaping, Inspired, Designer

  "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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• 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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• The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Skills, Psychology

  "the force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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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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• I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

  Maya Deren

  Rare Occasion, Auras, Greedy

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• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  Patrick Marber

  New York, Mean, Play

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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