Good Movie Quotes

• No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Enough, Bad Movies

  "A long column about the length of movies" by Eric Snider, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

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• There's not a lot of good movies being made.

  Sean Penn

  Made

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• But most good movies have a gun in them.

  David Sedaris

  Gun

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• When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

  Chris Tucker

  Black, Want, Starting Out

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

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• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Apology, Years, Hollywood

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• There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Drama, Prejudice, Comedy

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt: the new Heath Ledger?" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2009.

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• I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Girl, Twilight

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• A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

  Michael Douglas

  Actors, Want, Concerned

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 11, 2013

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• A good movie humanizes people.

  Ethan Hawke

  People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

  Stan Lee

  People, Incredibles, Bigs

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Give me B movies or give me death!

  Clive Barker

  Movie, Giving, Cinema

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 16, 2013

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• If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Ideas, Sound, Clear

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

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• Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.

  Anne Tyler

  People, Watches, Next

  Anne Tyler (2009). “Noah's Compass: A Novel”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

  Amanda Bynes

  Stars, Wanted, Hottest

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• A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Real, Guy, Good Person

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• To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

  Seth Rogen

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• In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Thinking, People

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.724, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

  Ben Affleck

  Bells, Toys, Stores

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

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• Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

  Matthew Quick

  Real, Feel Good, Life Is

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.217, Macmillan

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• My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

  Roger Ebert

  Depressing, Motto, Bad Movies

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.282, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

  George Clooney

  Directors, Scripts, Screenwriting

  "Bedside manner". Interview with Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2002.

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• I think I made good movies.

  Jane Campion

  Thinking, Made

  "Ten Questions for Bright Star's Jane Campion: 'I've Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.

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• In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

  Tim Burton

  Technology, Thinking, Artist

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

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• I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Hate, Actors

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• There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.

  Rick Santorum

  Hollywood, Conservative

  Interview with Alex Pappas, amp.dailycaller.com. June 25, 2013.

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