Movie Quotes - Page 13

• It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

  Robert Altman

  Inspiring, Different, Film

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• I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

  John Hughes

  School, Doctors, Aggravation

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• The only safe thing is to take a chance.

  Elaine May

  Inspiring, Safe, Chance

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• White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Nice, White

  "Stupid White Men ...and Other Excuses For the State of the Nation!". Book by Michael Moore, 2001.

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• All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, People, Enchantment

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• Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Actors, Stones

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• Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

  Xavi

  Summer, Soccer, Stars

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• with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

  Lynda Obst

  Rooms, Stills, Sequels

  Lynda Obst (2014). “Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

  Lynda Obst

  Ego Problem, Egomaniacs, Hollywood

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• My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

  Lynda Obst

  Becoming One, Sight, Goal

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• [On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

  Lynda Obst

  Hollywood, Youth, Cardinals

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• Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.

  Gena Rowlands

  Hollywood, Cows, Sacred

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• In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Giving, Desire

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• I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

  Agnes Varda

  Forever, Cinema, Feels

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• The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

  Hildegard Knef

  Stars, Film, Infantile

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• And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.

  Paula Fox

  Stars, Eye, Voice

  Paula Fox (2013). “Borrowed Finery: A Memoir”, p.95, Macmillan

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• One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

  Delia Ephron

  Hysteria, Important, Hollywood

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

  Barbara Deming

  Dream, Book, Mirrors

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  People, Trying, Violence

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• Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Sex, Feelings, Technique

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• Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Black And White, Color, Film

  Penelope Gilliatt (1980). “Three-Quarter Face: Reports & Reflections”, Coward McCann

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• Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

  Salma Hayek

  Beautiful, Stupid, Silly

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• I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

  Salma Hayek

  Editing, Actors

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• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  Salma Hayek

  Book, Home, Character

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• great villains make great movies.

  Staton Rabin

  Villain

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