Movie Quotes - Page 28

• In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

  Jeff Bridges

  Expectations, Challenges, Actors

  7 Copy quote

• If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.

  Joe Lando

  Drs, Actors, Heartbeat

  47 Copy quote

• A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

  Christian Bale

  Stars, Responsibility, People

  4 Copy quote

• Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.

  James Cameron

  Stars, Rose, Missing

  "Fictional character: Jack, Rose". "Titanic", www.imdb.com. 1997.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

  Kevin Costner

  Halloween, Who I Am, Actors

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

  Richard Linklater

  Inspiring, Thinking, Film

  Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiring, Trying, Fruit

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

  Howard Hawks

  Inspiring, Moving, Directors

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

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

  Samuel Fuller

  Inspiring, Eye, Character

  10 Copy quote

• A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Algorithms, Actors

  5 Copy quote

• Casting is 65 percent of directing.

  John Frankenheimer

  Inspiring, Casting, Filmmaker

  83 Copy quote

• Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

  Peter Farrelly

  Inspiring, Stress, Feelings

  45 Copy quote

• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Mel Torme

  Uncles, Dad, Fans

  7 Copy quote

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

  Alan Parker

  Inspiring, Vision, Filmmaker

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  48 Copy quote

• 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

  47 Copy quote

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

  Frank Capra

  Inspiring, Trying, Messages

  8 Copy quote

• 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”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

  Antonio Banderas

  Kings, America, Directors

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Martin Amis

  Stars, Actors, Movie Star

  5 Copy quote

• Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

  Alfre Woodard

  Reality, Agriculture, Quality

  4 Copy quote

• It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

  John Leeson

  Dog, Sound Doctrine, Actors

  6 Copy quote

• I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

  Richard Donner

  Thinking, Actors, Film

  8 Copy quote