Movie Quotes - Page 29

• Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

  Daniel Craig

  People, Actors, Dry

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• A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

  Graham Greene

  Book, Actors, Spirit

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• Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

  Jason Reitman

  Art, Mistake, Years

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com. December 4, 2009.

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• I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

  Fred Durst

  Hurt, Thinking, Names

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• One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, World, Too Much

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• Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

  Ian Shoales

  Would Be, Culture, Half

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere.

  Ryan Connolly

  Inspiring, Passion, Successful

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• 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

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• 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

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• We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

  Ethan Coen

  Inspiring, Reality, Everyday

  Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Rodney Allen (2006). “The Coen Brothers: Interviews”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

  Justin Timberlake

  Singing, Want, Break

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• Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

  Brian Setzer

  Crazy, Writing, Band

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• If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

  Dario Argento

  Gambling, Watches, Actors

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• 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

  Jerry Orbach

  Home, Actors, Alibis

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• I make movies I want to see.

  Neil LaBute

  Gambling, Actors, Want

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• Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Book, Theatre, Actors

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Self, Life Experience, Deeper

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• Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

  Bette Davis

  Looks

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• Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

  Griffin Dunne

  Inspiring, Narrative, Documentaries

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• Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

  John Updike

  Inspiring, Safe, Filmmaker

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• I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

  Edward Zwick

  Inspiring, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Leonardo DiCaprio & Ed Zwick for “Blood Diamond”". Interview with Garth Franklin, www.darkhorizons.com. December 7, 2006.

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• I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

  Christopher Nolan

  Inspiring, Believe, Thinking

  "Movies to keep you awake at night" by Scott Bowles, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 24, 2002.

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• A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

  Jean Renoir

  Inspiring, Film Directing, Directors

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993)

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• I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

  John Huston

  Inspiring, People, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Inspiring, People, Different

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