Hollywood Films Quotes - Page 2

• In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

  Jim Broadbent

  Character, Lines, Definitions

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• I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?

  Julian Sands

  Thinking, People, Humanity

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

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• But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?

  Joseph Fiennes

  Mean, Judging, People

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

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• Astonishing times. Who would have imagined that the Crazy Gang would yield a Hollywood film star (Vinny Jones), a British television ever-present (John Fashanu) and now a televised African dance champion?

  Giles Smith

  Soccer, Football, Stars

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• So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

  Eriq La Salle

  Respect, Important, Audience

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

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• As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

  Johnny Ramone

  Italian, Might, Horror

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Sep 19, 2014

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• It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective.

  Jessica Chastain

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Jessica Chastain Wants More Female Protagonists: 'Where is the Scarlett Johansson Superhero Movie?'" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. September 3, 2014.

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• Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

  Eli Wallach

  Money, Play, Lows

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

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• The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Beautiful, Dream, Powerful

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• I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

  Spike Lee

  Independent, Hybrid, Hollywood

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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  The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny, Cute, Movie

  1954 In the Journal American, 22 Feb.

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• You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Acting, Stories, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was inspired by Maya Deren because she was the first woman filmmaker whose films I saw. I also loved Fellini and Goddard because they were so different from Hollywood films. But when I saw the cinema verite films that were made by Drew Associates with Leacock and Pennebaker I found my passion.

  Chris Hegedus

  Passion, Different, Cinema

  "Live Chat with Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.

  Lloyd Billingsley

  Christian, Religious, Animal

  K. Lloyd Billingsley (1999). “The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

  David Nicholls

  Dirty, Thinking, Wells

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• I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.

  Andrea Arnold

  New York, Nice, Kids

  "Andrea Arnold on her mesmerizing party on wheels, American Honey". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2016.

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• To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

  Sean Bean

  Independent, Honest, Enough

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

  Eddie Marsan

  Character, Men, Play

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• The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.

  Robert Kane Pappas

  Independent, Shooting, Advertising

  "Can the Corporate Media Turn Lies Into Truth?". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.scoop.co.nz. August 12, 2011.

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• I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Running, Phones, Cells

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

  Rupert Wyatt

  Thinking, Done, Hard

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

  Chris Lilley

  Hbo, Names, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bruno Dumont

  Depressing, Space, Use

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

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• A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.

  Richard Laymon

  Book, Years, Ifs And

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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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