Film Quotes - Page 38

• I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

  Dario Argento

  Kind, Making Money, Made

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• I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, Years, People

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• The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

  Sydney Pollack

  Sometimes, Reason

  "R.I.P. Sydney Pollack", www.indiewire.com. May 27, 2008.

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  Vincent Cassel

  New York, Drama, School

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Movie, Film History, Insightful

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• I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

  Peter Jackson

  Stars, War, Taken

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• I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

  Carla Gugino

  Movie, People, Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

  Ivan Reitman

  Fans, Fiction, Able

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• I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.

  Ivan Reitman

  Character, Way, Hanging Out

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

  James Franco

  Teaching, Ucla, Years

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• I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

  Ellen Page

  Sports, Grew Up, Feels

  "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Desire, Connections

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Style, Fans, Stories

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  Sam Mendes

  Style, Bags, Use

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• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, America, Giving

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Groups, Mexico, Clique

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Impact, Feelings, Would Be

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

  Thandie Newton

  Use, Kind, Pleasure

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

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• It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

  Naveen Andrews

  Writing, Color, People

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

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• The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

  David Thewlis

  Life Changing, Careers, Mind

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

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• TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

  David Anders

  Tvs, Very Good, Has Beens

  "David Anders Talks THE REVENANT and ONCE UPON A TIME; Says 'GAME OF THRONES Is My Wet Dream'". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

  David Anders

  Waiting, Way, Scripts

  "David Anders Talks THE REVENANT and ONCE UPON A TIME; Says 'GAME OF THRONES Is My Wet Dream'". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.

  Eve Arnold

  Reality, Light, People

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• I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

  Eve Arnold

  Reality, Ideas, Cameras

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  Fede Alvarez

  Fans, Crafts, Bigs

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with ‘Evil Dead’". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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