Movie Quotes - Page 10

• There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Lunch, Anxiety

  "Jack Nicholson: 'I have a sweet spot for what's attractive to me'". Interview with Dana Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 6, 2005.

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• The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Actors, Architecture

  "Q&A: Christopher Nolan On Dreams, Architecture, And Ambiguity". Interview with Obert Capps, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

  Clive Owen

  Writing, Character, Lovely

  "Clive Owen & Jude Law". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

  Al Pacino

  Cutting, Play, Mind

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• There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

  Al Pacino

  Would Be, Roles, Actors

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• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Progress, Evening, Film

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• What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

  Alexander Payne

  Dark, Actors, Filmmaking

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• I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Writing, Mean, Editing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

  Katy Perry

  School, Mtv, Circles

  "Katy Perry (she kisses boys, too!)". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. January 5, 2010.

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• Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Actors, Knows

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

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• Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

  John Podhoretz

  Dark, Keys, Knights

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• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  Jack Valenti

  Decay, Moral, Crime

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• For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Breathing, People, Necks

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• I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Loyalty, Memories, Dad

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

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• A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

  Renny Harlin

  Government, Foundation, Actors

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

  Sarah Zettel

  Fantasy, Lord, Standards

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• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  Peter Bart

  Summer, Past, Years

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• For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

  Guillermo del Toro

  Eight, Years, Made

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• I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

  Julia Roberts

  Pride, Lunch, Kitchen

  Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Self, Ideas

  Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

  Chris Rock

  Actors, Soundtracks, Music Is

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

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• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Money, Giving, Actors

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• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Kitchen, Meals

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