Movie Quotes - Page 9

• Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

  Melanie Griffith

  Eight, Everyday, Bed

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• Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

  Nate Silver

  Twilight, Cat, Data Collection

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

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• Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

  Tom Sizemore

  Men, Actors, Reason Why

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• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

  Max von Sydow

  Fighting, Want, Theater

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  Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

  Steven Spielberg

  Magic, Actors, Matter

  Steven Spielberg, Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm (2000). “Steven Spielberg: Interviews”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

  Will Smith

  People, Actors, Theater

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• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

  Federico Fellini

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Problem, Enough

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• What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

  Steve Martin

  Stars, Actors, Skinny

  "The 75th Annual Academy Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. March 23, 2003.

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• 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Dirty, Naughty

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• At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

  Terence Stamp

  Fun

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• A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Inspiring, Events, Cost

  "Thinking outside the box office" by Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 01, 2005.

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• The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

  Eric Stoltz

  College, Actors, Cameras

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• There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Lunch, Anxiety

  "Jack Nicholson: 'I have a sweet spot for what's attractive to me'". Interview with Dana Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 6, 2005.

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• The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Actors, Architecture

  "Q&A: Christopher Nolan On Dreams, Architecture, And Ambiguity". Interview with Obert Capps, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

  Clive Owen

  Writing, Character, Lovely

  "Clive Owen & Jude Law". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

  Al Pacino

  Cutting, Play, Mind

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• There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

  Al Pacino

  Would Be, Roles, Actors

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• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Progress, Evening, Film

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• What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

  Alexander Payne

  Dark, Actors, Filmmaking

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• I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Writing, Mean, Editing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

  Katy Perry

  School, Mtv, Circles

  "Katy Perry (she kisses boys, too!)". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

  Julia Roberts

  Pride, Lunch, Kitchen

  Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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