Great Film Quotes - Page 2

• Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.

  Brett Gelman

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

  Guy Pearce

  Roles, Film, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

  Jonathan Glazer

  Film, Made, Feels

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• I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

  Christopher Egan

  People, Actors, Want

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• Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

  David Hare

  Farewell, Thinking, Europe And America

  "David Hare pays tribute to Philip French". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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• I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

  Ali MacGraw

  Emotional, Perfection, People

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• I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

  John Waters

  Directors, Film, My Favorite

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• I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.

  Richard Schiff

  Our Generation, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers - actively put themselves back into TV. That's because the environment is very encouraging for bold storytelling, storytelling that you've never seen before.

  Ron Perlman

  People, Tvs, Looks

  Source: variety.com

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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Clever, Nice, Stupid

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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• The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Book, Writing, Years

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• As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Directors, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.chud.com

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• One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

  Mary Harron

  Secret, Cameras, Lenses

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Thinking, Roles, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Thinking, Luxury, Knowing

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• Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

  Dennis Hopper

  Stars, Confused, Destiny

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• My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

  John Cusack

  Summer, Dad, Player

  "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August, 2008.

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• (The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.

  Jimmy Page

  Song, Years, Watches

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• If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.

  Emily Rios

  Focus, World, Want

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• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, "God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything." And then you see the close-up and it's so nuanced and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  Finn Wittrock

  Acting, Sometimes, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are one of a kind people. You know, they have a vision. They may be influenced by other filmmakers, but they don't work with them on anything.

  Mick Garris

  People, Vision, Kind

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• We had a great producing staff and great filmmakers, but for me, my mission , as a producer, was to make sure that the creators were happy with the film Death Note and that their voices were heard. I felt, if the creators were proud and happy with the film, then in turn, the fans would be proud and happy with the film because the creators know the fan base, inside and out.

  Masi Oka

  Proud, Death Note, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• My job is to make a film that can sit as a standalone piece, that if it's the only Marvel film you see, it's a great film with a great story in and of itself. The lucky thing is that there's a bunch of geniuses who run Marvel that make sure, even if it's a standalone piece, that it's part of a great big jigsaw puzzle that could be appreciated as a whole as well.

  Taika Waititi

  Running, Lucky, Genius

  Source: collider.com

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• Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can give a performance moment to moment and some of your takes will be used and some of them won't. I think there are great films you can make with bad performances, and vice versa. There are all combinations of those things. It's really down to the director what happens, I think, so that's why it's really good to work with very talented, bold directors.

  Rachel Weisz

  Real, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

  Edwin Catmull

  Team, Ideas, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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