Film Quotes - Page 21

• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Pieces, Scripts, Action

  "We're Talking To You, Miss!". Mohican Press interview, www.mohicanpress.com. March 25, 2005.

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• Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

  Devon Sawa

  Independent, Dark, Pieces

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

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• There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Attitude, World, Intention

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• I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.

  Jennifer Sky

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

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• I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

  Dougray Scott

  Nice, Hands, Development

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• I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Taken, Hands, Challenges

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• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Change, Transition, Might

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?'". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Mother, Character, Men

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• I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

  Patrick Warburton

  Character, Interesting, Typical

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

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• I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

  Casper Van Dien

  Destiny, Race, Dean

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• When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Experience, Firsts, Notion

  "Trumbull's vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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• No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

  Mark Rydell

  Careers, Important, Genius

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• All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

  Jack Nance

  Mad, Brain, Genius

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• We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

  Simon Pegg

  Morning, Watches, Wake Up

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• Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

  John Sayles

  Night, Should Have, People

  "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.

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• I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Hate, Vices, Likes

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• When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Hate, People, Approach

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• I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Hate, Independent, Watches

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• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Heart, Eye, Watches

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• In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

  Michael Berryman

  Art, Honesty, Nice

  Interview with Vyeto Malesh, marsdust.net. January 22, 2017.

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• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Release, Bigger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Movie, Real, Criticism

  "'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'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

  Denzel Washington

  Movie, Watches

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Political, Apes

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• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Fisher Stevens

  Movie, New York, Cities

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

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