Good Films Quotes - Page 4

• I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.

  Christopher Nolan

  Risk, Trying, Want

  "Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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• I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

  Joel Siegel

  Origin Of Life, Years, Ideas

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• On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

  Avi Arad

  Judging, Going Away, Stuff

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• The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?

  Eriq La Salle

  Insomnia, White, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.

  Eugene Levy

  School, Kids, Years

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• Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

  Vera Farmiga

  Spiritual, Thinking, Film

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• I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

  Brendan Fraser

  Independent, Mean, Arabia

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• I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

  Josh Hartnett

  Want, Film, My Own

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• A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Movie, Art, Gambling

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

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• I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

  Logan Lerman

  Want, Film, Contributing

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• A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Movie, Able, Scripts

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

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• I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Independent, Thinking, Eccentric

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• Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

  Julia Roberts

  Retirement, Couple, Kids

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• I think making a good film shot is joyful.

  William Shatner

  Thinking, Film, Joyful

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• When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

  Lars von Trier

  School, Film, Form

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• One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Daughter, Mother, Age

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• You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

  Yash Chopra

  Successful, Blessing, Needs

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

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• In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

  Susan Sontag

  Film

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

  Paul Haggis

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

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• I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Queens, Thinking

  "The Man Who Would Be Queen". Melody Maker Interview, www.queenarchives.com. May 2, 1981.

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• Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Beer, Crafts

  Interview with John Lingan, www.splicetoday.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I don't think good films have messages.

  Julia Leigh

  Thinking, Messages, Film

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• As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

  Kevin Pollak

  Roles, Film, Stage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

  Alexander Payne

  One Day, Film, I Can

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• I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

  Joshua Leonard

  Have Faith, Film, Audience

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