Movie Quotes - Page 30

• 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

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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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• 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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• The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Inspiring, Ends, Filmmaker

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

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• It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Actors, Mercy, Critics

  "‘My Week With Marilyn’: Harvey Weinstein On Michelle Williams, Marilyn Monroe & The Oscars". Interview with Mike Hogan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

  Rider Strong

  Stars, War, Jumping

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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• I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

  Scott Speedman

  Strong, Thinking, Careers

  "Scott Speedman for 'xXx: State of the Union'". Interview with By Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.

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• You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

  Kevin Spacey

  Dark, Years, Different

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, People, Watches

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• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  Fiona Shaw

  Thinking, America, Good Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  Omar Sharif

  Thinking, Watches, Narcissistic

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• Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

  Peter Jackson

  Actors, Achieve, Filmmaking

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 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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• I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.

  Alice Englert

  Thinking, People, Acting

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