American Movie Quotes - Page 4

• 'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

  James McAvoy

  Teenage, Fire, Sick

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• I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Chinese, Trying

  "Tiger, Tiger burning bright". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Wanted, Heresy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

  Mary McCarthy

  Europe, America, Negative

  "America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub" (1947)

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• After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Years, Psychological, Torture

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

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• South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Funny, Movie, Kissing

  Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers introduction (1950)

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• I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.

  Donnie Yen

  Waiting Around, Actors, Wonder

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• We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Independent, Night, Impact

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• The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Art, Mean, Hollywood

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• Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

  Alan Arkin

  Thinking, Two, Figures

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• The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

  Howard Stringer

  America, Melting, France

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• Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught me off guard. I was on an airplane.

  Roger Federer

  Couple, Airplane, Names

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• American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

  Todd Gitlin

  America, Together, Innocence

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• Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Problem, Bigs, Big Problems

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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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• That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

  Gene Siskel

  Movie, Giving, Trying

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