Film Quotes - Page 25

• When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.

  Jafar Panahi

  Jail, Directors, Doe

  "Strange Bedfellows: Koch and London Critics Heap Praise on ‘King’s Speech’" by Melena Ryzik, carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2010.

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• You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

  Clint Eastwood

  Directors, Criminals, Stealing

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• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hollywood, Kind, Certain

  "Jack Nicholson: The Ultimate Viewing Guide". Interview with Adam Smith, www.empireonline.com. July 22, 2014.

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• 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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• I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

  Luchino Visconti

  Wall, Men, Data

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

  Alan Rickman

  Made, Force, Certain

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• Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Believe, Thinking, People

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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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• My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

  Robbie Coltraine

  Dad, Kids, Parenting

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• I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

  Wanda Rutkiewicz

  Climbing, Mountain Climbers, Mountaineering

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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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• I think one of the reasons younger people don't like older films, films made say before the '60s, is that they've never seen them on a big screen, ever. If you don't see a film on a big screen, you haven't really seen it. You've seen a version of it, but you haven't seen it. That's my feeling, but I'm old-fashioned.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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

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• When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.

  John Cassavetes

  Crazy, Able, Tough

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

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• Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

  John Cassavetes

  Want, Filmmaking, Exploring

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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 had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. The topless Interview shoot was one of the ones where I said: 'OK, I'm fine doing the topless shot so long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch.' Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. I think women's bodies are a battleground, and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Thinking, Long

  "Is Keira Knightley's topless photoshoot the best form of protest?" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2014.

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• Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

  David Cronenberg

  Philosophy, Vision, Kind

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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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• There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

  George A. Romero

  Thinking, Objectivity, Years

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• Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

  Renee Zellweger

  Money, Obscure, Bigs

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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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• I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

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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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