Film Quotes - Page 19

• Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Silence, Generations

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• A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.

  Tim Roth

  Change, Nice, Thinking

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• My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

  Eva Green

  Mother, Wave, Periods

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• Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Way, Euthanasia, Tarantino

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• We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

  Ivor Novello

  Believe, Mean, Cutting

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• A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

  Minor White

  Mind, Photographer, Sensitive

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• The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

  Ajay Devgan

  Good Life, Winning, Differences

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• But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

  Sydney Pollack

  Japan, Europe, Yugoslavia

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• Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

  Philip Kaufman

  Thinking, Europe, America

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

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• So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

  Wim Wenders

  Europe, Somewhere Else, Bored

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

  Marc Newson

  Europe, Film Music

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• It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Genocide, Made, Reviews

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• In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.

  Wim Wenders

  Country, Italian, Years

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Fredric Jameson

  Country, War, Agreement

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

  Martin Bashir

  Opportunity, Fda, Achievement

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• I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

  Joshua Leonard

  Finding The One, Worry, Done

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• To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

  Edward Zwick

  Children, Heart, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Writing, Fog, Orchestra

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• I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

  Karel Reisz

  Fog, Years, Balls

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• It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

  Anjelica Huston

  Beautiful, Country, Weather

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• I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

  Dave Rowntree

  Character, Thinking, Funny Things

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.

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• If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

  Don Bluth

  Character, Funny Things, Games

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• When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

  Julie Harris

  Black And White, Luck, Looks

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• I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

  Joshua Leonard

  Luck, Proud, Witch

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• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

  Mark Rydell

  Fun, Ideas, Needs

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