Movie Quotes - Page 31

• 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Validation, Trying

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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 love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

  Gena Rowlands

  Independent, Actors, Filmmaking

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• I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

  George Hickenlooper

  Creating, Hollywood, Fiction

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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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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• The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

  Max von Sydow

  Ideas, Giving, Cameras

  "Greatest Directors". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm pretty sure I would never do a full frontal in a movie - for personal reasons, I wouldn't really want to show that.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Actors, Want, Reason

  "Amanda Seyfried's March 2012 Cover-Shoot Gallery" by Alyssa Shapiro, www.glamour.com. March 2012.

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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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• Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Men, Views, Work Ethic

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

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• You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

  Guy Ritchie

  Different, Actors, Aspect

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• I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

  Dileep Rao

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

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• 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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• Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  Victor Salva

  Summer, Kids, Actors

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• Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "A Woman We Love: Jennifer Aniston" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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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• 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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