Movie Quotes - Page 17

• 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Dirty, Naughty

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• When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

  Pauline Kael

  Want, Kind, Ads

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

  Josh Lucas

  People, Actors, Alive

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• Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

  Pauline Kael

  Finals, Desperation, Speed

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

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• Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hate, Voice, Cameras

  "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Years, Two, Actors

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• I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Inspire, Actors

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Nov 30, 2014

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• I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

  Hugh Jackman

  Long, Musical, Les Mis

  "Les Miserables - Hugh Jackman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

  Julia Leigh

  Together, Directors, Actors

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• It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

  Julia Leigh

  Thinking, Actors, Too Much

  "While You Were Sleeping: Julia Leigh's Dream World". Interview with Craig Hubert, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2011.

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• Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

  Mary Astor

  Horse, Tired, Wrestling

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• The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Real, People, Magic

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• people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.

  Glenda Jackson

  Numbers, People, Rubbish

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• The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

  Alex O'Loughlin

  America, World, Mecca

  "Interview with a Vampire: Inside CBS' Bloody-fun Moonlight". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. September 28, 2007.

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• The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Musical, Actors, Movement

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

  Pauline Kael

  Colossal

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• At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

  Pauline Kael

  Real, Order, Sensual

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?

  Pauline Kael

  Believe, Thug, Hands

  "Stanley Strangelove". Review of "A Clockwork Orange" in January 1972. "Deeper into Movies". Book by Pauline Kael, www.visual-memory.co.uk. 1973.

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• I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Writing, Mean, Editing

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

  Katy Perry

  School, Mtv, Circles

  "Katy Perry (she kisses boys, too!)". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

  Alison Bechdel

  Men, Two, Watches

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• Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

  John Podhoretz

  Dark, Keys, Knights

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• The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

  Bette Midler

  Running, Men, Race

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• I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

  Seth Gordon

  Actors, Shooting, Filmmaking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  Zoe Kazan

  Boring

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