Hollywood Films Quotes

• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Movie, Wise, Latin

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Movie, Great Year, Field Of Dreams

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

  Billy Wilder

  Movie, Great Year, Lists

  Billy Wilder (1999). “Sunset Boulevard”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

  Marc Ribot

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

  Larry Adler

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

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• For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Film History, Mafia

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Mafia

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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• My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

  Winston Groom

  Life, Motivational, Movie

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Film History

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

  Paul Mooney

  Black, Unwritten, Ifs

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• Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.'

  Jackie Chan

  People, Safety, Captains

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• I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

  Park Chan-wook

  Stars, Bigs, Scenarios

  "Blood-suckers and blood-thirsty revenge: an interview with South Korean director Park Chan-wook". Interview With Jon Herskovitz, blogs.reuters.com. May 13, 2009.

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• I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

  Park Chan-wook

  Musical, Bigs, Hollywood

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• I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

  Andre Benjamin

  Father, Kids, Cowboy

  "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008.

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• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  J. J. Johnson

  Community, Lucky, Break Out

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

  Bruno Dumont

  Depressing, Two, Space

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: 'No God but Cinema'". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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