Movie Quotes - Page 10

• You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Editing, Choices, Mind

  "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 2, 2002.

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• When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

  Bill Paxton

  Inspiring, Competition, Levels

  "Bill Paxton - No more days of 'Hey, aren't you Chet?'". Interview with Jonathan Litt, tech.mit.edu. May 02, 1997.

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• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Agreement, Way, Digital

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• Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

  Thomas Beecham

  Musical, Noise, Painful

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• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

  Michael Stipe

  Oxygen, Cry, Embarrassing

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• There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

  Frank Capra

  Inspiring, Sin, Cardinals

  Recalled on his death in People, 16 Sep 1991.

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• And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Vcr, Watches, Industry

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• And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

  Gus Van Sant

  Inspiring, Thinking, Directors

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• But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

  George Lucas

  Inspiring, Psychology, Understanding

  "George Lucas". Book by Charles J. Shields, 2002.

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• An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, Actors, Pieces

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• There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

  Tom Hanks

  Wind, Tree, Actors

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• Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

  Tina Turner

  Back In Time, Stills

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• I was always attracted to science fiction movies

  Tina Turner

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Movie

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• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Ben Stiller

  Careers, Way, Comedy

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• I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Nice, Thinking, Acting

  "Sigourney Weaver for “Tadpole”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. July 19, 2002.

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• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  Cameron Diaz

  Actors, Sake, Next

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• People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

  George Roy Hill

  Inspiring, People, Luck

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• When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Dream, Song

  Elvis Presley's acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (January 16, 1971); later quoted in Jerry Osborne "Elvis - Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (p. 188), August 1999.

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• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  Rachel True

  Hair, Six Months, Looks

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• One does not simply walk into Mordor.

  Peter Jackson

  Doe, Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring

  "Fictional character: Boromir". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

  Guy Ritchie

  Teamwork, Smart, Actors

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• A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

  Michael Winner

  Funny, Inspiring, Teamwork

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

  George Carlin

  Horse, Kids, Animal

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Generations, Shows

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

  Kirk Douglas

  Inspiring, Life Is Like, Stories

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

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