Movie Quotes - Page 15

• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  Karel Reisz

  Inspiring, Expression, Style

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• In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

  Shirley Temple

  Distance, Personality, World

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• We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, People, May

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• When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

  Rick Moranis

  Thinking, Say Anything, Actors

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• I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

  John Malkovich

  Eight, Talking, Years

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

  John Malkovich

  Pitfalls, Actors, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

  Eli Wallach

  Wife, Acting, Stage

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

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• License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Bond Movie, License, Great Bond

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• I was always attracted to science fiction movies

  Tina Turner

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Movie

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• No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

  Jean-Louis Trintignant

  Cinema, Want, Today

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• But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

  George Lucas

  Inspiring, Psychology, Understanding

  "George Lucas". Book by Charles J. Shields, 2002.

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• I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

  Robert Wagner

  Cameras, Company, Fronts

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• Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Stars, Personality, Actresses

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• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Ben Stiller

  Careers, Way, Comedy

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• One does not simply walk into Mordor.

  Peter Jackson

  Doe, Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring

  "Fictional character: Boromir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

  Meg Tilly

  Children, Successful, Order

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• If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Special, Actors, Reason

  "King of bling" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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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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• At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

  Terence Stamp

  Fun

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• The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

  Eric Stoltz

  College, Actors, Cameras

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• I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

  Guy Ritchie

  Teamwork, Smart, Actors

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• A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

  Michael Winner

  Funny, Inspiring, Teamwork

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

  Ron Howard

  Inspiring, Choices, Challenges

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• Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

  Tina Turner

  Back In Time, Stills

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• When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

  George Carlin

  Horse, Kids, Animal

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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