Film Quotes - Page 35

• The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

  Tom Cruise

  Giving, Actors, Responsible

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• I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  People, Way, Opinion

  "Leonardo DiCaprio: Kissing a man in J Edgar film was all in a day's work". www.mirror.co.uk. January 17, 2012.

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• ‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

  Rutger Hauer

  Unique, Thinking, Blade Runner

  "Rutger Hauer: Only Christopher Nolan should make new ‘Blade Runner’ film". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

  Rutger Hauer

  Jobs, Thinking, Lucky

  "Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

  Rutger Hauer

  Moving, Thinking, Careers

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• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  Tanith Lee

  Care, Ifs, I Don't Care

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• I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

  Tanith Lee

  Would Be, Intrigued, Screens

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• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  Gary Oldman

  Movie, Magic, Actors

  "Actor Gary Oldman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2011.

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• I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

  Gary Oldman

  Obligation, Stills, Publicists

  "Gary Oldman: 'My sister in EastEnders is more famous than me'" by Kate Goodacre, www.digitalspy.com. September 2, 2011.

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• I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Two, Support

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• Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

  Martin Scorsese

  Creative, Matter, Wonderful

  "And we're rolling". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

  Greil Marcus

  Reading, Writing, Mean

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• I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.

  Helena Christensen

  Beautiful, Reality, Pieces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

  Kevin Costner

  Home, Kids, Two

  "Keeper of the flame" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2001.

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• The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Guy, Days Off, Lines

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• In any film there's always a historical implication.

  Oliver Stone

  Historical, Implications

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• I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

  Werner Herzog

  Needs

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• Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

  Dylan McDermott

  Successful, Film And Television, Producers

  "Interview: DARK BLUE Stars Dylan McDermott, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Omari Hardwick". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2009.

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• I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

  D. A. Pennebaker

  Thinking, Democracy, Rooms

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• Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

  David Puttnam

  Technology, Creative, Digital

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• I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

  David Puttnam

  Country, Focus, Generations

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• In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

  Wesley Snipes

  Real, Goal, Dancer

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• You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

  Les Claypool

  Book, Watches, Littles

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

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• You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

  Roger Vadim

  Sculpture, Ugly, Rodin

  "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.

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