Film History Quotes

• 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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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Mafia

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Psychics, Hollywood Films

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Movie, Radio News

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Mafia

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

  Bram Stoker

  Movie, Children, Halloween

  Dracula ch. 2 (1897)

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• There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.

  Karina Longworth

  Men, White Man, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I write and film history; I don't make it.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Writing, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Work Out

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• Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Space, Erotic

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage

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• It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.

  Thom Andersen

  Teacher, School, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Scorpios, West

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

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• I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Important, Proud, Pieces

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Book, School, Access

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

  Dario Argento

  Italian, Special, Niche

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• I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

  Giovanna Cau

  Country, Rome, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.

  Zoe Kazan

  Kids, Feel Better, Thinking

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• It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Movie, Insightful, Wonderful

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• When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

  Jacques Rivette

  Directors, Certain, Young

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• The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

  Louise Brooks

  Movie, People, Tragedy

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