Movie Quotes - Page 11

• Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Stars, Personality, Actresses

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• I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Believe, Actors, Impossible

  "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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• I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

  Michael Vartan

  Lazy, Hours, Easier

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

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• I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

  Ben Affleck

  Years, Great Year, Actors

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• Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

  Daryl Hannah

  Actors, Filmmaking, Mediums

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

  Jason Statham

  People, Compliment, Come Up

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 6, 2003.

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• The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

  Elvis Presley

  Tea, Honest, Honest Tea

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• It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

  Alan Rudolph

  Inspiring, Lasts, Next

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

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• A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

  Karel Reisz

  Inspiring, Expression, Style

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• My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

  Eli Wallach

  Wife, Acting, Stage

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

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• No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

  Jean-Louis Trintignant

  Cinema, Want, Today

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• I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

  Robert Wagner

  Cameras, Company, Fronts

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• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  Oskar Werner

  Gambling, Mistress, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

  Terence Stamp

  Fun

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• The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Creativity, Media, Creative

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

  Max von Sydow

  Fighting, Want, Theater

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• The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

  Christian Slater

  Character, Play, Mind

  "Christian Slater: Clean Slater". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. July 1, 1993.

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• Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

  Robin Tunney

  People, Needs, Theater

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• After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

  Robin Tunney

  Bigs, Big Movie

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. May 29, 2003.

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• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

  Federico Fellini

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

  Meg Tilly

  Children, Successful, Order

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• Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

  Meg Tilly

  Interesting, Emotion, Horror

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• Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

  Melanie Griffith

  Eight, Everyday, Bed

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• All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

  Morgan Freeman

  Years, Six Year Olds, Actors

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• I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

  James Spader

  Fun, Reality, Thinking

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