Blockbuster Quotes - Page 2

• We need to take a step back and realize that what happened in the 1950s, when he started his career, is exactly where we are today. Everything goes in a cycle, and right now, distribution is changing. Audiences might be kind of sick of these giant blockbuster movies with all these special effects where blue people are running around and the hero is some non-human entity. These are all great movies, but I think that there's definitely room for new voices to come out.

  Alex Stapleton

  Running, Hero, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Directors, May

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

  Femi Fani-Kayode

  Confused, Clueless, Character

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• Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.

  George Brandis

  Years, Australia, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Responsibility, Drug, Trials

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• The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

  Tim League

  Summer, Numbers, Visionaries

  "Jason Eisener, Nacho Vigalondo, Ti West, and Many More Team for Horror Anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH" by Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. May 12, 2011.

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• After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.

  James Berardinelli

  Should Have, Office, Guy

  "Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

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• I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the merrier. I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Long, House

  "Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart on Waiting For Godot". Interview with Dominic Cavendish, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

  Harry Shearer

  Play, Hey, Christmas Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

  Linda Grant

  Dream, Wake Up, Action

  "Linda Grant: a life in writing". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

  Henry Selick

  Creativity, Thinking, Pressure

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• To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.

  Jim Broadbent

  Delight, Stressful

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer blockbuster be as dull, dumb and soul-sucking as the first three Transformers movies? Step right up.

  Peter Travers

  Summer, Believe, Men

  "Transformers: Age of Extinction". Article by Peter Travers, www.rollingstone.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.

  Mark Millar

  Stars, War, Creating

  "Mark Millar On Empress, Star Wars Influences, And Why He's Doing More Female-Led Comics". Interview with Joshua Yehl, za.ign.com. March 15, 2016.

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• The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable. It's never been about the blockbusters and making a huge tonne of money. It's always been about wanting to do projects about the things that I think are important to be out there.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Independent, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them.

  Matt Damon

  Jobs, Decision, Bigs

  "Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2013.

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• Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

  Jason Statham

  Want, Littles, Able

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• I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

  Michael Caine

  Bigs

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• There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Wall, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

  Mike Lupica

  Sports, Hero, Night

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• The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

  Gemma Arterton

  Hollywood, Cinema, Film

  "The Disappearance of Alice Creed - Gemma Arterton interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

  Al Franken

  Writing, Tv Shows, Worry

  Senate hearing on COICA, arstechnica.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

  Ang Lee

  Summer, Character, Design

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• What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?

  James Morcan

  Book, Technology, What If

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• I'm going to miss Blockbuster. I'm gonna miss being CEO and all that stuff. We had an atmosphere where everybody was happy. When people make money, they're happy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  People, Missing, Atmosphere

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