Movie Quotes - Page 16

• It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

  Julia Leigh

  Thinking, Actors, Too Much

  "While You Were Sleeping: Julia Leigh's Dream World". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2011.

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• The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

  Christian Slater

  Character, Play, Mind

  "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.

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• Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, Voice, Cameras

  "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Shelley Winters

  Mean, Loss, Player

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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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• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Different Interpretations, Subjects

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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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• I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

  Seth Gordon

  Actors, Shooting, Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up I didn't watch movies.

  Denzel Washington

  Growing Up, Watches, Growing

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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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• 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 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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• When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, 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 ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Dream, Song

  Elvis Presley's acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (January 16, 1971); later quoted in Jerry Osborne "Elvis - Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (p. 188), August 1999.

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• I've always wanted to do a space movie.

  Danny Boyle

  Space, Actors, Wanted

  Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. March 14, 2007.

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• People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

  George Roy Hill

  Inspiring, People, Luck

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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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• 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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• An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, Actors, Pieces

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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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• 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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• I was always attracted to science fiction movies

  Tina Turner

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Movie

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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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• I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Nice, Thinking, Acting

  "Sigourney Weaver for “Tadpole”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  Cameron Diaz

  Actors, Sake, Next

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