Good Films Quotes - Page 3

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

David Mamet

Movie, Able, Scripts

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

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I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Logan Lerman

Want, Film, Contributing

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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

Movie, Art, Gambling

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

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I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

Josh Hartnett

Want, Film, My Own

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I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

Brendan Fraser

Independent, Mean, Arabia

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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Vera Farmiga

Spiritual, Thinking, Film

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I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Michael Biehn

Play, People, Care

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

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I like to act in films, I like to shoot 'em, I like to direct 'em, I like to be around 'em. I like the feel of it and it's something I respect. It doesn't make any difference whether it's a crappy film or a good film. Anyone who can make a film, I already love. But I feel sorry if they don't put any thought in it because then they missed the boat.

John Cassavetes

Sorry, Differences, Ems

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With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

Akira Kurosawa

Real, Fire, Expression

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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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A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Sofia Coppola

Dad, Editing, Ideas

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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Abhishek Bachchan

Successful, Simple, Film

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If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

Tobey Maguire

Fall, Creating, Preparation

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Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

Gordon Willis

Photography, Beer, Crafts

Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

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I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

Freddie Mercury

Song, Queens, Thinking

"The Man Who Would Be Queen". Melody Maker Interview, www.queenarchives.com. May 2, 1981.

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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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On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

Avi Arad

Judging, Going Away, Stuff

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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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I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

Christopher Nolan

Risk, Trying, Want

"Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

David Lean

Film, Crew, Made

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A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

Peter Straughan

Fall, Mean, Good Reads

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I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

Liv Tyler

Thinking, Film, Requiem

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As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

Ajay Devgan

Writing, Giving, Scripts

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I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual.

Vilmos Zsigmond

Thinking, Needs, Cinema

"“Cinema Needs Good Images”: An Interview with Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Kaleem Aftab, filmmakermagazine.com. May 29, 2014.

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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

Federico Fellini

Together, Film, Opening

Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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