Movie Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  Naomi Watts

  Dark, Thinking, People

  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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• The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.

  Josephine Herbst

  Men, Media, Hands

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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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• 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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• Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

  Jason Statham

  Inspired, Busy, Jet

  Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

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• I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

  Stevie Nicks

  People, Musician, Different

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

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• 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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• 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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• For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

  Wim Wenders

  Years, Culture, Lobbying

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• 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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• Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

  Edward Zwick

  Thinking, Experience, Catharsis

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

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• A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Money, Actors, Novelty

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Girl, America, Wife

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• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Sean Young

  People, Actors, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Reason Why, Concern, Corporate

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• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  Ed Wood

  Successful, Thinking, Needs

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• I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

  Scott Wolf

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

  Alex Winter

  Giving Up, Order, Balance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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