Film Quotes - Page 22

• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  Dan Simmons

  Movie, Three, Four

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• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  Omar Sharif

  Movie, Thinking, Watches

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• Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Opportunity, Actors, Want

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• You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

  Jon Voight

  Technology, Opportunity, Voice

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• Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

  Douglas Sirk

  Opportunity, Directors, Scandal

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• People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

  Fiona Shaw

  Relationship, People, Cameras

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

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• The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Song, Romance, Audience

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• This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

  Chris Wedge

  Technology, Stories, Way

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• So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

  Fay Wray

  Time, Care, Littles

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• I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

  Jim Woodring

  Time, Fun, Want

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

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• When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Understanding, Perception, World

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

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• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

  Jack Valenti

  Understanding, Edginess, Nerves

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• You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

  Jay Roach

  People, Worry, Understanding

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

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• I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.

  Ruby Wax

  Football, Women, Games

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• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Work, Hard Work, Hard

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• We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

  James Woods

  Work, People, Steps

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• I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.

  Fred Willard

  Work, Cutting, Thinking

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques; which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  Parminder Nagra

  Football, Running, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Home, Race, Long

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• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  Sally Field

  People, Style, Television

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• There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

  Scott Speedman

  Writing, Style, Television

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

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• There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

  Julie Christie

  Feminist, Aspect, Bits

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• My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Kids, Boys, White

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• The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

  Richard Pryor

  Black, Church, Together

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• years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Stars, Years, People

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