Movie Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Writing, People, Different

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• Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

  Diablo Cody

  Successful, Epic, Example

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Political, Apes, Viewpoints

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• But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

  Julie Taymor

  Men, Thinking, Violence

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• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mom, Kids, Kind

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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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• Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

  Daniel Craig

  Actors, Worst, Bond Movie

  "Seven's deadly sins". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.

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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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• 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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• '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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• A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

  Ang Lee

  Actors, Messages, Provocation

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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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• It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

  Michael Apted

  Skills, Imagination, Today

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• The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Worst, Great Things, Worst Things

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• All I do is go to the movies.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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• Filmmaking can be a fine art.

  Terri Windling

  Art, Actors, Fine

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• Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

  Pia Zadora

  People, Bags, Records

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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 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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• John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

  Molly Ringwald

  Impact, Actors, Filmmaking

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