Film Quotes - Page 24

• I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers. . . . Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Believe, Moving, Character

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• There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 13-year-old anorexic who lives with her parents and has been raped by her father. And this is a comedy.

  Christine Vachon

  Father, Dark, Years

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• I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie. I took the concept and made a romantic adventure film. I like action heroes who don't take themselves too seriously. I wanted to make everyone take the mummy seriously, but it couldn't just be a guy in bandages. But the main thing was to build in surprises. That's one of the great things you can do with special effects.

  Stephen Sommers

  Hero, Adventure, Guy

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• Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.

  David Mamet

  Stars, Character, Mean

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• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Night, Good Luck, Pieces

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• In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

  Helen Slater

  People, Expecting, Supergirl

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• On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

  Barbara Cook

  Military, Afternoon, Tap Dancers

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• George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

  Bailey Chase

  Years, Television, Able

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• I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

  Christopher Nolan

  Real

  "Christopher Nolan Nixed Post-Credit Scene for 'Man of Steel'" by Graeme McMillan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 4, 2014.

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• No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

  Peter Jackson

  Kings, Years, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Distance, Epic, Shining

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• So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.

  Tony Kushner

  Thinking, Obvious Things, Forever

  Interview, blogs.denverpost.com. January 31, 2010.

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• The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.134, Univ of California Press

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• To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Finals, Bigs, Composer

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• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  Sam Mendes

  Want, Lifetime

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• All films are born free and equal.

  Andre Bazin

  Born, Born Free, Equal

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• A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

  Ken Loach

  Party, Voice, Political

  "Picture politics". www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2004.

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• I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Revolution

  "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 1952.

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• I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

  Helmut Newton

  Hate, Color, Cameras

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• When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.

  Rob Zombie

  Moving, Release Date, Two

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• I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

  David Naughton

  Italian, Rome, Wanted

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• Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.

  Dennis Muren

  Years, People, Today

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• It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

  James Dobson

  Powerful, Moving, Disturbing

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• My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Digging, Research, Firsts

  Esquire, August 1970.

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