Movie Quotes - Page 22

• I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

  Jason Lee

  Stars, Kids, Character

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.

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• They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

  Alex Winter

  Fun, Ems, Innocence

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

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• The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

  Alex Winter

  Return, Investment, Expecting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

  Pia Zadora

  Spy, Information, Violence

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• My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

  Martin Scorsese

  Actors, Whole Life, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

  Adam West

  People, Culture, Actors

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• Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

  Scott Speedman

  People, Different, Duets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

  Nick Stahl

  Independent, Risk, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

  Ani DiFranco

  Stupid, Long, Stories

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• I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

  Alexa Vega

  Thinking, Annoyed, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

  Jon Stewart

  Actors, I Can

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• The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

  W. C. Fields

  Play, People, Actors

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• I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

  George Hickenlooper

  Art, Thinking, Actors

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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• You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

  Martin Amis

  Stars, Actors, Movie Star

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• Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

  Pauline Kael

  Air, Talking, Citizens

  Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael (1971). “The Citizen Kane book”

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• The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

  Sam Mendes

  Stories

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• When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

  Stephen Chow

  Moving, Color, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  Cameron Crowe

  Inspiring, Real, Directors

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• You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

  Danny Huston

  Understanding, Acting, Actors

  "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Heartbroken, Pain, Journey

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• I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

  Darren Aronofsky

  Actors, Narrative, Filmmaking

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• You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

  Tim Roth

  Dog, Fiction, Actors

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• Self-plagiarism is style.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Inspiring, Self, Style

  Alfred Hitchcock (2014). “Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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• A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

  Alan Parker

  Inspiring, Vision, Filmmaker

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• If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.

  Frank Capra

  Inspiring, Trying, Messages

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