Movie Quotes - Page 26

• Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Adventure, Actors

  "Celeb Q & A: Shia Labeouf". www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

  Emir Kusturica

  Tunnels, Light, Actors

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

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• I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

  Tony Kushner

  Angel, Play, Income

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• Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

  Diane Kruger

  Stars, Actors, Matter

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• Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

  Greg Kinnear

  Games, Actors, Guessing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

  Stephen King

  Book, Years, Ideas

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

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• 'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

  Jason Reitman

  Names, Giving, Directors

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• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Couple

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• All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Girl, Gun, Needs

  "Breathless continues to shock and surprise 50 years on" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. Junuary 5, 2010.

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• Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

  Greta Garbo

  Stars, Mean, Games

  Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company

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• My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

  Jerry Saltz

  Christian, Years, Actors

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• Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

  Gus Van Sant

  Actors, Viewpoints, Dramatic

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• I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

  Gus Van Sant

  Hunting, Actors, Filmmaking

  Interview with Kimberly Gadette, www.oregonlive.com. May 18, 2011.

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• If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

  Gus Van Sant

  Nice, Actors, Closure

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• People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Boxing

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, People, Scary

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• Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Thinking, Should Have

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

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• Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

  Steven Spielberg

  Actors, Proud

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

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• I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Years, Feelings

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

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• I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Summer, Daughter, Mother

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

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• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  Zoe Saldana

  Sex, Gun, People

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• Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Games, Ballet

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

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• People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, People, Trying

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  Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Beautiful, Gambling, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Actors, Pieces

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.

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