Film Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

  Vir Das

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Investing Money

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• I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

  Vir Das

  Thinking, Giving, Fans

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• I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

  Vir Das

  Bored, Comedian, Routine

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• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  Zhang Yimou

  Chinese, Sticks, Language

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• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Television, Artistic, Artistic Freedom

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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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• Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

  Rod Steiger

  Reflection, People, Injustice

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• Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, Book, Color

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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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• I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Patriotism, Embarrassed

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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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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• I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Silent Films, Play, Watches

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

  Dario Argento

  Heart, Dark, Opera

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• I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me.

  Morris Chestnut

  Hate, Heart, Cold

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• Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

  Peter Berg

  America, Voting, Doe

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• Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Father, Son

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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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• That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Thinking, Would Be, Cost

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• I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

  Joel Siegel

  Origin Of Life, Years, Ideas

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