Film Quotes - Page 39

• I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Actors, Students, Filmmaking

  "Mulroney and Amazing". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Children, Smart

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• If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

  Nick Nolte

  Risk, Lines, Sticks

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

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• When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

  Nick Nolte

  Thinking, Doing You, Great Film

  "Oscar race: Choosing between Tom Hanks and Tom Hanks" by Sherri Sylvester, www.cnn.com. January 28, 1999.

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• 'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Heart, Angel, My Favorite

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.

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• I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Gimmicks, Sticks

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• It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

  Sandra Bullock

  Inexpensive, Millions

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

  Jet Li

  Hero, People, Chinese

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• Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

  Anthony Anderson

  Firsts, Actors, Able

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• Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

  Andrea Arnold

  Firsts, Starting, First Time

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• For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

  Andrea Arnold

  Lonely, Trying, Way

  "Real life in the Fish Tank" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.

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• I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

  Andrea Arnold

  Interview with Jonathan Crocker, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

  Tim Roth

  Hands, Acting, Fascination

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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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• But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Trying, Facts, Negative

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

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• I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

  Ellen Page

  Sports, Grew Up, Feels

  "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

  Dario Argento

  Strong, Special, Trying

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• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  Naveen Andrews

  Writing, Color, People

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

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• The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

  Sydney Pollack

  Sometimes, Reason

  "R.I.P. Sydney Pollack", www.indiewire.com. May 27, 2008.

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  Vincent Cassel

  New York, Drama, School

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  Carla Gugino

  Movie, People, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

  James Franco

  Teaching, Ucla, Years

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• I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

  Ivan Reitman

  Fans, Fiction, Able

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• I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.

  Ivan Reitman

  Character, Way, Hanging Out

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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