Movie Quotes - Page 24

• It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

  Terence Stamp

  Beauty, Thinking, Guy

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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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• 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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• 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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• But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

  Ethan Suplee

  Confused, Thinking, Actors

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

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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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• It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

  Fred Willard

  Pleasure, Happenings

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• I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

  Justin Timberlake

  Simple, Sneak In, Theatre

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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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• If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

  Ryan Gosling

  Fall, Character, Actors

  "Michelle Williams & Ryan Gosling: Heart to Heart". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. October 1, 2010.

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• My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

  Lynda Obst

  New York, Stupid, Crazy

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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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• You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Inspiring, Real, Cutting

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