Movie Quotes - Page 37

• If you're good at something, never do it for free.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Money, Dark, Knights

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

  Steven Spielberg

  Inspiring, Positivity, People

  "Science Fiction in Steven Spielberg's Suburbia". Interview with Chris Hodenfield, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

  Lana Turner

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

  Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

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• Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

  Billy Wilder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Winning

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

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• One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

  Oliver Stone

  Joy, Should, Loses

  FaceBook post by Oliver Stone from Apr 27, 2012

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• It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

  Boris Karloff

  Boys, Ghouls, Dollars

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• I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

  Steven Spielberg

  Smile, People, Laughing

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• If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

  Tom Hanks

  Inspiring, Jobs, Stars

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• [on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

  Nora Ephron

  Weekend, Optimism, Lucky

  The Los Angeles Times Interview, July 27, 1989.

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• I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

  Clint Eastwood

  Powerful, Thinking, Blow

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• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

  Mary Schmich

  Gambling, Actors, Who We Are

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• If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

  Peter Stormare

  Mean, Years, Salary

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• I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Fire, Trivia

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• Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!

  Brad Pitt

  Fighting, Clubs, Firsts

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• I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Inspiring, Sleep, Independent

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• People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

  Matthew Vaughn

  People, Watches, Want

  "Director Matthew Vaughn talks Layer Cake and X-Men 3". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!

  Mel Gibson

  Running, Fighting, Years

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, War

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

  Quentin Tarantino

  Brother, Anger, Ezekiel

  "Pulp Fiction". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

  Horace

  Wise, Latin, Positivity

  Horace, Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz (2008). “The Odes of Horace”, p.27, JHU Press

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• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Workout, Inspiration

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

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• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

  Federico Fellini

  Gambling, Would Be, Film

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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• This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

  David Lynch

  Inspiring, Heart, World

  "Fictional character: Lula Fortune". "Wild at Heart", 1990.

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• I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Thinking, Fog, People

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Inspiring, Sex, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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