Movie Making Quotes

• Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

  Tom Hanks

  Technology, Stories, Best Technology

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• We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Real, Trying, Different

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• That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

  Dana Carvey

  Comedian, Kind, Modern

  "Dana Carvey Talks Master of Disguise". Interview, www.ign.com. January 16, 2003.

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• When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Painting, Fleetwood Mac, Process

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• Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

  Karolyn Grimes

  Movie, Christmas, Angel

  "Fire In Belltown, USA Destroys Last Bell Factory". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. May 31, 2012.

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

  Gordon Willis

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

  "Remembering Gordon Willis, ASC" by Jon Fauer, www.fdtimes.com. May 20, 2014.

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• My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

  Alexander Payne

  Real, Ideas, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hands, Clay, Process

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• The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Giving, Important, Ingredients

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Writer/Director Rian Johnson Talk LOOPER, Sci-Fi, and Transforming into Bruce Willis". Press conference, collider.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Directors, Actors, Mediums

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. November 05, 2002.

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• There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

  Sidney Lumet

  Decision, Pieces, Months

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• We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Events, Attention

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Night, Self, Discipline

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• Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

  John Boorman

  Wall, Light, The End Of The Day

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• The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

  Pauline Kael

  Mistake, Worst, Worst Things

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

  Joss Whedon

  Wish, Television, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.

  Jay Cassidy

  Photography, Fall, Cutting

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

  Eric Roberts

  Car, Sometimes, Clockwork

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• I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Design Work, Knowing, Boards

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• Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

  Klaus Kinski

  Toilets, Cleaning

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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• I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

  Roman Polanski

  Philosophy, Passion, Thinking

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• The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'

  Ben Hecht

  Thinking, Empires, Barbarians

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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