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• In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Europe, Actors, Television

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• In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Generations, Shows

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

  Kirk Douglas

  Inspiring, Life Is Like, Stories

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

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• When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

  Elvis Presley

  Dream, Children, Book

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• I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Money, Mind, Suits

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• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  Abel Ferrara

  Hands, Actors, Starting

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Editing, Choices, Mind

  "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 2, 2002.

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• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Vision, Trying, Actors

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• Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

  Dianne Wiest

  Musical, Actors, Woody

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• From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Boys, Actors

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• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Rights, Aggravation, Decline

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• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  Lake Bell

  Art, Brain, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2011.

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• I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

  Aisha Tyler

  Believe, Superhero, Fantastic

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• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Agreement, Way, Digital

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• I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

  Alain Resnais

  Special, Film, Appetite

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

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• And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

  Gus Van Sant

  Inspiring, Thinking, Directors

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

  Diane Lane

  Mother, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  Radha Mitchell

  Stars, Actors, Wanted

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• The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

  Christina Ricci

  Successful, Actors, May

  "Christina Ricci: The One and Only". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 2001.

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• You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

  Christina Ricci

  Ideas, People, Stories

  "Christina Ricci Sheds Some Light on Penelope". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 28, 2008.

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• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  Rachel True

  Hair, Six Months, Looks

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• I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

  Ben Affleck

  Years, Great Year, Actors

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• There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

  Tom Hanks

  Wind, Tree, Actors

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• It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

  Jason Statham

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• I was always attracted to science fiction movies

  Tina Turner

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Movie

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