Film Quotes - Page 38

• You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

  Les Claypool

  Book, Watches, Littles

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

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• If the money's right, I'll do a film.

  Oliver Reed

  Ifs

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• A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

  Denzel Washington

  Criticism, Tables, Might

  "Denzel Washington". Book by James Robert Parish, 2009.

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• There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

  Christopher Hampton

  Moments, Wanted, 80s

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• Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

  Christopher Hampton

  Nice, Thinking, Good Movie

  "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

  Tom Cruise

  Believe, Way, Helping

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

  Tom Cruise

  Giving, Actors, Responsible

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• ‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

  Rutger Hauer

  Unique, Thinking, Blade Runner

  "Rutger Hauer: Only Christopher Nolan should make new ‘Blade Runner’ film". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

  Rutger Hauer

  Jobs, Thinking, Lucky

  "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  Tanith Lee

  Care, Ifs, I Don't Care

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• I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

  Tanith Lee

  Would Be, Intrigued, Screens

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• Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

  Martin Scorsese

  Creative, Matter, Wonderful

  "And we're rolling". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

  Greil Marcus

  Reading, Writing, Mean

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• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

  Kevin Costner

  Home, Kids, Two

  "Keeper of the flame" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2001.

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• I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

  Werner Herzog

  Needs

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• Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

  Dylan McDermott

  Successful, Film And Television, Producers

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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• In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

  Wesley Snipes

  Real, Goal, Dancer

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• I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

  John Sayles

  Jobs, Needs, Investing

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• I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

  Tim Roth

  People, Trying, Scripts

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• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Party, Unique, Thinking

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

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• For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

  James Spader

  Play, Preparation, Research

  "Q&A: James Spader repeats history in 'Lincoln'". Interview with Amanda Meyncke, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2012.

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• You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

  James Spader

  Years, Two, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

  Andy Garcia

  Mean, Kids, Community Theatre

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• In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

  Wim Wenders

  Four, Late, Amount

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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