Film Quotes - Page 36

• I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Beer, Simple, Would Be

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• The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Crazy, Taken, Careers

  "5 Kids & No Nanny: How Chris O'Donnell Does It" by Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. May 17, 2010.

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• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Party, Unique, Thinking

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

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• Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

  James Spader

  Two, Directors, Different

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• For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

  James Spader

  Play, Preparation, Research

  "Q&A: James Spader repeats history in 'Lincoln'". Interview with Amanda Meyncke, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2012.

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• You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

  James Spader

  Years, Two, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

  Billy Gibbons

  Mirrors, Matter, Clean

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• Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Character, Choices, Together

  "Elisabeth Shue: Shue Shines Again". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 2000.

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• My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

  Andy Garcia

  Mean, Kids, Community Theatre

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• In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

  Wim Wenders

  Four, Late, Amount

  "'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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• In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

  Wim Wenders

  Europe, America, Criticism

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• Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

  Jodie Foster

  Mother, Kids, Appreciate

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• I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Actors, Students, Filmmaking

  "Mulroney and Amazing". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.

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• I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Mother, Children, Smart

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• You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

  Claire Danes

  Years, Midlife, Crisis

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• I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

  Elia Kazan

  Giving Up, Hate, Believe

  "Arthur Miller's Daughter Humanizes Playwright in New Documentary" by Glenn Garvin, reason.com. March 16, 2018.

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• I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

  Elia Kazan

  Important, Action, One Word

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• If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

  Nick Nolte

  Risk, Lines, Sticks

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

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• When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

  Nick Nolte

  Thinking, Doing You, Great Film

  "Oscar race: Choosing between Tom Hanks and Tom Hanks" by Sherri Sylvester, www.cnn.com. January 28, 1999.

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• I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

  Kevin Bacon

  Kids, Hands, Names

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• 'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Heart, Angel, My Favorite

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.

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• I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Thinking, Gimmicks, Sticks

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• I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

  Juliette Binoche

  Dream, Trying, Intense

  "A Star is Born: The Moment an Actress becomes an Icon". Book by George Tiffin, 2015.

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• There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

  Chuck Jones

  Children, Book, Tests

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.164, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

  Sandra Bullock

  Inexpensive, Millions

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