Film Quotes - Page 23

• I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

  Alain Resnais

  Movie, Special, Appetite

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

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• Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

  Rachel True

  Editing, Able, Natural

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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 must stick with Chinese language films.

  Zhang Yimou

  Chinese, Sticks, Language

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• Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

  Sofia Coppola

  Creative, Important, Artistic

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• In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

  Danny Elfman

  Missing You, Tone, Ifs

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• It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Journey, Interesting

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• Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs with the grace of the first creation. I mean, that first week. On one of those days God created Fred Astaire. Saturday maybe, since that was the day for the pictures. When you s Fred you felt better about everything. He was a cure. He was bottled in the films and all around the earth, from Castlebar to Cairo, he healed the halt and the blind. That's the gospel truth. St. Fred. Fred the Redeemer.

  Sebastian Barry

  Running, Mean, Men

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• The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

  Louis Zamperini

  New York, Race, Names

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• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Beautiful, Support, Read Between The Lines

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• Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

  Hugo Weaving

  Creating, Kind, Amusing

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• Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

  Andy Garcia

  Empowering, Desire, Want

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• Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

  Milos Forman

  Decision, Political, Influence

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• In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

  Terry Southern

  Difficulty, Lack Of Control, Superiors

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• It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

  Rosamund Pike

  Mean, Games, Support

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• Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

  Rick Moranis

  Curves, Games, Guy

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• A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

  Brian Austin Green

  Couple, Fun, Directors

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• I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

  John Schlesinger

  Looks, Festivals, Berlin

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• [Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Party, Awards, Guy

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• They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.

  Meryl Streep

  Sadness, Thinking, Laughing

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• The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Crazy, Phones, Talking

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• But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

  Robert Conrad

  Thinking, Ego, Let Me

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• Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

  Alexey Suetin

  War, Opponents, Chess

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