Movie Quotes - Page 18

• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Opportunity, Men

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• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

  Max von Sydow

  Fighting, Want, Theater

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• And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

  Jason Statham

  People, Compliment, Come Up

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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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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• I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Believe, Actors, Impossible

  "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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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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• What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

  Shana Alexander

  Life, Running, Stars

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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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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• 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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• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  Oskar Werner

  Gambling, Mistress, Actors

  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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• I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Actors, Movie Star

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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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• 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 am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Block, Writing, Decision

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• Growing up I didn't watch movies.

  Denzel Washington

  Growing Up, Watches, Growing

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• I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

  Alex Winter

  Gambling, Different, Actors

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

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• I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

  Alex Winter

  Thinking, Want, Filmmaker

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

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• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

  Orlando Bloom

  Adventure, Love Is, Mad

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• When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I dont have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Worry, Bored, Scripts

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• Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

  Ryan Kwanten

  People, Enough Time, Complaining

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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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• great villains make great movies.

  Staton Rabin

  Villain

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• I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Mirrors, Acting, Experts

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• The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Brother, Play, Acting

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