Hollywood Movies Quotes - Page 3

• I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Hollywood, Invisible

  1952 Invisible Man, prologue.

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• Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

  Walter Hill

  Thinking, Boxing, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Stars, Reality, Rights

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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• The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Average, Years, Hollywood

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

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• Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.

  Stephen Metcalf

  Dark, Interesting, Wicked

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• For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

  Doug Liman

  Character, Choices, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

  Mark Steyn

  Hate, Cities, America

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• I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Lying, Character, Hollywood

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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

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• Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

  Manny Farber

  Depressing, Sex, Sunset

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.644, Library of America

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• It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Rain, Hair, Wind

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• Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Zoos, Animal, Years

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• All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Hollywood, Pseudo, Looking Good

  "Anurag Kashyap: Bollywood is to blame for India's inability to deal with reality". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than many Hollywood movies]. At the same time, I think everyone who's making movies hopes to appeal to the widest audience possible.

  Joe Swanberg

  Thinking, Adults, Hollywood

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.

  Philip French

  Father, Men, Hollywood

  "The Guardian" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Hollywood, French Movies

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• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Movie, Girl, America

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• People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

  Franklin Foer

  Kfc, People, Islam

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

  Keanu Reeves

  Movie, Thinking, Quality

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

  Parker Posey

  Girl, Character, Guy

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

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• It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

  Roland Emmerich

  Hate, Hollywood, Obsession

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• Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

  Rupert Sanders

  Mcdonalds, Years, Directors

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• Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

  Mike Leigh

  Hate, Healthy, Hollywood

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.

  Jackie Chan

  Taken, Years, Practice

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• I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Hollywood, Phases

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

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