Great Film Quotes - Page 5

• I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.

  Jay Presson Allen

  Sex, Stars, Ambition

  "Fictional character: Sally Bowles". "Cabaret", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• You have to be able to feel like you can play way outside of the box. If you're with a great filmmaker and someone you can trust, that's encouraged, and Seth was that kind of filmmaker and co-star.

  Charlize Theron

  Stars, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

  Terry Semel

  Years, Tvs, Film

  "Terry Semel Joins SnagFilms’ Board, Invests in Online Distributor". www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2012.

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• I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.

  Michael Giacchino

  Thinking, Guy, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't have any expectations about my films. If they're good, they're good - if they're not, they're not. About 10 years ago, I remember going to see one of my movies - I can't even remember which one now - and everyone was jumping up and down, getting excited, saying what a great film it was going to be. We all went in and watched it, and it was the slowest movie I've ever seen. The next day, the reviews were terrible and half the studio was fired.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Next Day, Jumping, Years

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• People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

  Johnny Depp

  Eye, People, Watches

  "Cast & Crew Interview, RANGO". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."

  Jonathan Jackson

  Hero, Character, Robins

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see .

  Peter Jackson

  Film, Really Amazing, Good Films

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Press Conference, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Often it's true that films just go right through us. You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Thinking, Might

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

  John Carpenter

  Jobs, Growing Up, Later In Life

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

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• You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

  Robert Altman

  Cutting, Directors, Film

  2004 In The Independent,14 May.

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• It's got to be a challenge but at the same time you have to feel as though you can play them - it's really dangerous to want to be a part of something just because you think it's going to be great. I've been sent plenty of scripts where I've known that it's going to be a great film and a successful one, but I just couldn't convince myself that I was the right person for the part. So, I think you have to be careful with that.

  Eric Bana

  Successful, Thinking, Play

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Insulting, Directors

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit.

  Edgar Wright

  Brother, House, Mind Blowing

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.

  Edward Norton

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.

  Kate del Castillo

  Film, Really Sad, Terrible

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To be in someone's favorite film is just - that's what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Memorable, Want, Film

  "From the Archives: Kirsten Dunst Interviewed". Interview with Nathaniel Rogers, thefilmexperience.net. November 18, 2011.

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• In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Simple, People

  "Martin Scorsese channels his inner film critic on ‘The Searchers’" by Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. March 8, 2013.

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• There's so many great films coming out. It's still kind of astonishing to me how certain films get ignored, and that film ended up getting ignored and didn't get the attention that it deserved at Sundance.

  Elvis Mitchell

  Attention, Ignored, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

  Amanda Michalka

  Directors, Looks, Records

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• Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you know? I'm so interior. I always forget there's such a thing as an exterior wide shot, where you can see where someone is. As opposed to just: how can we show what this person is thinking, in an abstract way that is felt?

  Miranda July

  Character, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on.' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing.' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.

  Jacob Latimore

  Fun, Agency, Atlanta

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• I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.

  Douglas Booth

  Responsibility, Thinking, Phoenix

  Source: www.justjared.com

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