Movie Quotes - Page 18

• I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

  Julia Roberts

  Pride, Lunch, Kitchen

  Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Self, Ideas

  Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

  Ang Lee

  Successful, Giving, Would Be

  "Ang Lee, ‘Life of Pi’ Director, Talks Culture Shock, Anxiety And Why His Films Fit Together" By Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

  Alexander Payne

  Dark, Actors, Filmmaking

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• In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Progress, Evening, Film

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• If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

  Pauline Kael

  Senses, Ifs

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

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• Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

  Olivia Thirlby

  People, Together, Actors

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

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• There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Lunch, Anxiety

  "Jack Nicholson: 'I have a sweet spot for what's attractive to me'". Interview with Dana Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

  Kerry Washington

  Writing, Rights, Stories

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 29, 2001.

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• I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 6, 2005.

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• The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Actors, Architecture

  "Q&A: Christopher Nolan On Dreams, Architecture, And Ambiguity". Interview with Obert Capps, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

  Clive Owen

  Writing, Character, Lovely

  "Clive Owen & Jude Law". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

  Al Pacino

  Cutting, Play, Mind

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• There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

  Al Pacino

  Would Be, Roles, Actors

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• Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

  Chris Rock

  Actors, Soundtracks, Music Is

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

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• I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Hate, Nice, Actors

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• Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

  Gloria Swanson

  Successful, Hollywood, Tricks

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• These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

  Ang Lee

  Mean, Two, Chinese

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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• There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

  Ang Lee

  Mind, Needs, Actors

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

  Greta Garbo

  Life, Two, Actors

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• Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Actors, Weak

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• The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.

  Renata Adler

  Art, People, Doubt

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• I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

  Ang Lee

  Chinese, Trying, Looks

  "Tiger, Tiger burning bright". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

  Ang Lee

  Years, Hollywood, Actors

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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