American Film Quotes - Page 2

• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

  Rosalind Russell

  Funny, Life, Movie

  "Fictional character: Mame Dennis". "Auntie Mame", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Movie, Great Year, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

  Winston Groom

  Life, Motivational, Movie

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Song, Stars, Important

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

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• There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

  Tom Hardy

  Film, Abundance, Exposure

  "Tom Hardy: 'It's a normal human impulse to watch two people kick the hell out of each other'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

  Jack Valenti

  Home, Boston, Vcr

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• In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Motivation, Cartoon, Film

  "'A Good Day to Die Hard's' Yuliya Snigir on Russian Stereotypes and 'Making It' in Hollywood (Q&A)". Interview with Irina Danilova, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

  Audrey Tautou

  Mean, Laughing, Mind

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• For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Independent, Degrees, Safe

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

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• Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.

  Paula Patton

  Light, Color, People

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

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• OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

  Joely Richardson

  Successful, Years, Careers

  "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

  Irvin Kershner

  Years, Effort, Lasts

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• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Film, Wanted

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Country, Growing Up, Drama

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• American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

  Ang Lee

  World, Film, Authenticity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted.

  David Denby

  Intelligent, Thinking, Rivers

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• When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

  Jackie Chan

  People, Watches, Safe

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• Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

  Neil Jordan

  Regret, Confused, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

  Jackie Chan

  Directors, Film, American Writer

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• I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

  Jackie Chan

  Asian, Film, Audience

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• [When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Daughter, Mother, Appreciation

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

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• Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

  Max von Sydow

  Nice, People, Guy

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• That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

  Peter Greenaway

  People, Massage, Film

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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