Film Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

  Julie Christie

  Feminist, Aspect, Bits

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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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• years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Stars, Years, People

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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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• The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

  Alex North

  Country, Art, Turkeys

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• The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

  John Cusack

  Beach, Talking, Years

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• Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Art, Numbers, People

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• To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Finals, Bigs, Composer

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• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Luxury, People, Great People

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• Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.

  Milan Kundera

  Wise, Mother, Dream

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• If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.

  Noah Wyle

  Girlfriend, Father, Hollywood

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• You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people. What you find gets the high numbers is easily appealing subjects: a baby, a big broad joke, a high concept. Everything is tested. The effect is to lessen the gamble, but in fact you destroy a writer's confidence and creativity once so many people are invited into the tent.

  James L. Brooks

  Baby, Creativity, Hollywood Films

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• I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.

  Paula Vogel

  Responsibility, Issues, People

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• I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers. . . . Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Believe, Moving, Character

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• There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 13-year-old anorexic who lives with her parents and has been raped by her father. And this is a comedy.

  Christine Vachon

  Father, Dark, Years

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• I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more and more apparent is that I am simply only as good as my next photograph. That's the one that counts the most....For this reason I find it a delight to face a new day, and to develop that new roll of film. It's a great way to live.

  Ralph Gibson

  New Day, Way To Live, Delight

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• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Night, Good Luck, Pieces

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• George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

  Bailey Chase

  Years, Television, Able

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• I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

  Christopher Nolan

  Real

  "Christopher Nolan Nixed Post-Credit Scene for 'Man of Steel'" by Graeme McMillan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 4, 2014.

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• For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Distance, Epic, Shining

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• So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Obvious Things, Forever

  Interview, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

  Michael Apted

  Avid, Quality, Tape

  "Michael Apted Goes from “7 Up” to 007". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 1999.

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