Great Film Quotes - Page 4

• Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

  David Hare

  Farewell, Thinking, Europe And America

  "David Hare pays tribute to Philip French". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• (The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.

  Jimmy Page

  Song, Years, Watches

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• If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.

  Emily Rios

  Focus, World, Want

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• What I want to do is make films that astonish people, that astound people, and I hope you want to do that too. It's easy to make money. It's easy to make films like everybody else. But to make films that explode like grenades in people's heads and leave shrapnel for the rest of their lives is a very important thing. That's what the great filmmakers did for me. I've got images from Fellini, from Bergman, from Kurowsawa, from Bunuel, all stuck in my brain.

  Terry Gilliam

  People, Brain, Important

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• In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

  James Wolk

  Moving, Character, Play

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• When you have all the bells and whistles - you've got the big, fancy catering, you've got the big, fancy car service and the big, fancy trailer - it makes it very comfortable and everybody's making a lot of money. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to end up with a great film.

  Nia Long

  Mean, Fancy Cars, Bells

  "The Root Interview: Nia Long on 'Mooz-lum' and Motherhood". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.theroot.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.

  Scott Eastwood

  Guy, Filmmaker

  "Scott Eastwood Explains What Drew Him To Snowden". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

  Curtis Hanson

  Self, Novelists, Taught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Directors, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

  Robert Davi

  Film, Wells, Courses

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• [Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Australia, Film

  Source: www.getfrank.co.nz

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• There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.

  Keanu Reeves

  Competition, Roles, Festivals

  Source: lrmonline.com

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• You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

  Edwin Catmull

  Team, Ideas, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a performance moment to moment and some of your takes will be used and some of them won't. I think there are great films you can make with bad performances, and vice versa. There are all combinations of those things. It's really down to the director what happens, I think, so that's why it's really good to work with very talented, bold directors.

  Rachel Weisz

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are one of a kind people. You know, they have a vision. They may be influenced by other filmmakers, but they don't work with them on anything.

  Mick Garris

  People, Vision, Kind

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, "God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything." And then you see the close-up and it's so nuanced and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  Finn Wittrock

  Acting, Sometimes, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just like good stories. I like really interesting scripts, I love really great filmmakers. And I'm open to all genres and all stories. But, there's certain ones that attract me, and I don't really sort of look at what I think is going to be successful, I look at more so, you know, is this what I want to do regardless of what everybody else thinks?

  Scoot McNairy

  Successful, Thinking, Interesting

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• We had a great producing staff and great filmmakers, but for me, my mission , as a producer, was to make sure that the creators were happy with the film Death Note and that their voices were heard. I felt, if the creators were proud and happy with the film, then in turn, the fans would be proud and happy with the film because the creators know the fan base, inside and out.

  Masi Oka

  Proud, Death Note, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• My job is to make a film that can sit as a standalone piece, that if it's the only Marvel film you see, it's a great film with a great story in and of itself. The lucky thing is that there's a bunch of geniuses who run Marvel that make sure, even if it's a standalone piece, that it's part of a great big jigsaw puzzle that could be appreciated as a whole as well.

  Taika Waititi

  Running, Lucky, Genius

  Source: collider.com

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• I did my friend's film - this guy Harrison Atkins who's a great filmmaker. He just makes movies with all his friends, and I think that's all what we're striving for - to feel like we're among friends and people who care about each other. I'd like to think that good work comes from that - from a sort of loving and friendly environment.

  Peter Vack

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm very pragmatic in that I know there are very few greats in anything. I got lucky just to have gotten two of the real great filmmakers very early on. Better to have had them than to not have had them. I've been really fortunate. That's the key relationship on a movie: the director and the actor. Of course, you can't compare the experiences. When you're in your early 20s, you're a very different person. It was a very exciting time, and my whole world was changing. Now I'm looking back, and hoping I can still offer something. Still do good work.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Real, Different, Lucky

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to me a great film. But whatever pigeon-hole you put Stalker into you would both be increasing the risk of disappointing people and diminishing the film.

  Geoff Dyer

  People, Risk, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

  Christopher Egan

  People, Actors, Want

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• If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

  Pamela Yates

  Hard Work, People, Want

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

  Aml Ameen

  First Love, Tv Shows, Forever

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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