Film Quotes - Page 30

• I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Art, Real, Mean

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• My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

  Frank Capra

  Children, Reality, Men

  Frank Capra (1971). “The name above the title: an autobiography”

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• People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

  Aaron Stanford

  Heart, People, Safe

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• Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

  Steve Coleman

  Light, Canvas, Brushes

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• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  Kajol

  Writing, Self, People

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• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  Kajol

  Selfish, Book, Reading

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• My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.

  Kajol

  Children, Giving, Needs

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• I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

  Kajol

  Actors, Television, Refreshing

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• I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Thinking, Directors, Actors

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• Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

  Preity Zinta

  Falling In Love, First Love, Firsts

  "The Front Row: The Return of Preity Zinta, Courtesy of the Dalai Lama". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Actors, Elements, Casting

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• The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.

  Richard E. Grant

  Fashion, Moving, Pace

  "My Perfect Weekend: Richard E Grant". Interview with Anna Tyzack, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 16, 2010.

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• In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

  Channing Tatum

  Matter, Action, Ifs

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

  Channing Tatum

  Balance, Kind, Conscious

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• I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

  Channing Tatum

  Careers, Ideas, People

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

  Channing Tatum

  Mirrors, Directors, Dresses

  "Channing Tatum Interview THE EAGLE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

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• It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Avid, America, Fiction

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.110, Random House

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• Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Disappointment, Tears, Bearable

  "The House in Paris".

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• The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Wind, Mutiny

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• Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

  Norman Mailer

  Horror, Hours, Lost

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.54, Random House

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• The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.

  Milan Kundera

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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• You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

  Russell Crowe

  Knowing, Want, Starting

  "Russell Crowe and Director Ridley Scott Interview ROBIN HOOD – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Actresses, Tvs, Busy

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Hollywood

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• Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

  David Mamet

  David Mamet (1987). “House of Games: A Screenplay”, p.15, Grove Press

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