Movie Quotes - Page 30

• You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Heart, Humor

  Quoted in J. R. Colombo, Wit and Wisdom of the Moviemakers (1979)

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• Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

  Bette Davis

  Looks

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

  John Updike

  Inspiring, Safe, Filmmaker

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• There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

  David Fincher

  Sick, Watches, I Can

  "David Fincher - Seven & Fight Club". Interview with Paul Guyot, www.dvdtalk.com. 1999.

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• I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

  Diane Kruger

  Mean, Being Pretty

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• The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

  Christopher Lee

  Grateful, Endure

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• Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me

  Shannon Tweed

  Tvs, Forget, Yeah

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• How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

  Christian Bale

  Fun, Robots, Actors

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• I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

  Jordana Brewster

  Thinking, Should, Genre

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• A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Law, People

  "Brit Marling: The Breakout Indie Star Who’s Taking Us To “Another Earth” And Back Again". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. July 20.

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• It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Airplane, Phones, Watches

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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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• The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

  David Bailey

  Art, Actors, Scripts

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• I make movies I want to see.

  Neil LaBute

  Gambling, Actors, Want

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• I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

  Kevin Bacon

  Book, Zombie, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

  Griffin Dunne

  Inspiring, Narrative, Documentaries

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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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• I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Media, Feelings

  "Talk Asia" with Andrew Stevens, edition.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

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

  Daniel Craig

  People, Actors, Dry

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• They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Jobs, Writing, Support

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• Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

  Alex Winter

  Fighting, Hitchcock

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Hate, People, Robins

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• I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Golf, Play, Guy

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• I never go overbudget on my movies.

  Stanley Tucci

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