Good Movie Quotes - Page 2

• A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Complicated, Enjoyable

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Believe, Dirty

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

  Richard Widmark

  Apology, Autumn, Past

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• It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

  Emily Blunt

  Stupid, Dollars, Needs

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• I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fall, Thinking, Genre

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Stars, Simple, People

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• The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.

  Angelina Jolie

  Brother, Jobs, Book

  "Angelina Jolie, Jack O’Connell, Garret Hedlund, Miyavi, and Finn Wittrock Talk UNBROKEN, the Challenging Adaptation, the Coen Brothers, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Want, Get Up, Scene

  "Emerging Actor Discusses His Breakout Role as the Late Oscar Grant". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

  Katie Aselton

  Believe, Shots, Ifs

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

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• It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Make You Think, Tough

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• Comic books sort of follow with the move - if people see the movie and if they're interested in the character and want to see more of the character, they start buying the comic books. So a good movie helps the sale of the comic books and the comic books help the movie and one hand washes the other. So, I don't think there's any reason to think that comics will die out.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Book, Character

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

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• I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

  Andrew Stanton

  Book, Honor, Huge

  "20 Things to Know About JOHN CARTER; Plus an Awesome Interview with Director Andrew Stanton and Your First Look at a Tharks". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 11, 2011.

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• When you're going to try and have people talk in a room and actually reflect life as we know it and have people recognize themselves and their own street and their own house in it, well then you're aiming for the high country and it's a much bigger gamble. You can interview all the marketing gurus and the people in charge of, you know, the people you gotta fight with in order to get your seats here, and they all talk about release dates and counterprogramming. At the end of the day, it's gotta be a good movie.

  Tom Hanks

  Country, Fighting, Release Date

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.

  Noah Baumbach

  Regret, Should Have, Done

  "Noah Baumbach Talks FRANCES HA, Partnership with Greta Gerwig, His DreamWorks Animated Movie, WHILE WE’RE YOUNG, and THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I know what a good movie is.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Knows

  "Love And Rockets' Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

  Pauline Kael

  Believe, Cities, Theatre

  1970 Going Steady.

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• When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Thinking, Laughing, Watches

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• The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

  Bill Mechanic

  Creating, People, Want

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Stars, Real, Done

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• You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

  Gary Cole

  Looks, Wells

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• When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling.

  Chris Pine

  Jobs, Opposites, Mind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was like that where people say "oh, you know, that sounds so..." and we'd always go back and get every man, every ellipses in there the way these guys write it. Because not only is it saying what Michael wants the character to say but the way they all speak kind of creates this tone because it's not exactly real.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Character, Writing

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

  David Zucker

  People, Marketing, Release

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

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• The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

  Topher Grace

  Character, Scripts, Film

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• But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

  Sarah Vowell

  Good Life, Wine, Lunch

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