Good Movie Quotes - Page 8

• 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, Film

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

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• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  Barbara Hershey

  Thinking, Hands, Australia

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• The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.

  Jose Ferrer

  Truth Is, Made

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

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Believe, Care

  1970 Going Steady.

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• If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

  Gaspar Noe

  Tunnels, Years, Long

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• The characters are great, and this is the first adventure of the brothers Grimm, so there's plenty of potential to make a franchise. We've been quite successful in the past, so anything like that, if it does pay off with hopefully the good movie that I think it will be, it pays off also down the road.

  Bob Weinstein

  Brother, Adventure, Character

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• I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

  Katie Holmes

  Character, Mean, Looks

  "Katie Holmes, Michael Caine for “Batman Begins”". Interview, www.darkhorizons.com. June 14, 2005.

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• I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.

  Ellen Page

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview with Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• I remember a meeting I had at MGM. It was at the end of their reign. They say we have you under contract, and because you’re under contract, we’d like to you to work. I said, well, that seems fair. But if it’s a really good movie, they were going to give it to a particular actor that was not under contract. The bottom line was they were going to pay you more if it was a bad one and pay you less if it was a good one.

  George Hamilton

  Giving, Actors, Lines

  "Tanned ambitions: Hamilton reflects on Hollywood career and new film 'The Congressman'". Interview with Eric Althoff, www.washingtontimes.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

  Matthew Quick

  Happiness, Real, Feel Good

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

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• People want to leave their homes but they can't go on vacation as much as they used to. So, getting out of the house and seeing a good movie helps them to alleviate some of the pain that's going on in their life.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Pain, Home, Vacation

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I got very spoiled. Everybody said you will never ever work on such a good movie, you know. I did, because I went on to work on Captain America, which also has a great director, which is Joe Johnston, one of my heroes who designed the old Star Wars movies.

  Daniel Simon

  Stars, War, Hero

  "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.

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• You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

  Brett Ratner

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Brett Ratner: 'If it wasn't for Eddie Murphy, Rush Hour wouldn't exist'". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK. However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers.

  James Berardinelli

  Doors, Names, America

  "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.

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• It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2, the somewhat-muddled but still entertaining return of Bruce Willis' John McClane. Fortunately, the original Die Hard was good enough that there's room for the second installment to be enjoyable while still not matching the pace or possessing the flair of its predecessor.

  James Berardinelli

  Expectations, Return, Matching

  "Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

  John Gielgud

  Hollywood, Film, Be Good

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• The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren't drawing an audience - they're inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They're stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie - for any movie - is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Strong, Couple

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Comedy, Hard

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• Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

  Rosalind Russell

  Movie, Couple, People

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

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• A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

  Joel Surnow

  Dramatic, Scene, Bad Music

  "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do.

  Joel Surnow

  Needs, Scripts, Process

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• When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Laughing, Make You Think

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

  Chris Wedge

  Worry, Competition, Competing

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• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  Uta Hagen

  Actors, Knows, Movie Actors

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