Movie Quotes - Page 19

• After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

  Ang Lee

  Actors, Comedy, Cynicism

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• 3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

  Ang Lee

  Baby, Steps, Actors

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Hollywood, Fantasy, Problem

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• Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

  Ang Lee

  Actors, Digital, Expensive

  "Ang Lee Talks 'Life of Pi,' Scoring Creative Control From Fox". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 30, 2012.

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• I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

  Ang Lee

  Actors, Kind, Film

  Interview with Karan Johar, www.hindustantimes.com. November 4, 2012.

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• The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

  Lina Wertmuller

  People, Different, Levels

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• Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

  Molly Haskell

  Character, Reality, Clothes

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• There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

  Molly Haskell

  Memories, Two, Cinema

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

  Jessica Lange

  Different, Actors, Done

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• It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

  Jessica Lange

  Actors, Scripts, Modern

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  Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

  Steven Spielberg

  Magic, Actors, Matter

  Steven Spielberg, Lester D. Friedman, Brent Notbohm (2000). “Steven Spielberg: Interviews”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Actors, Knows

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

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• [On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Gentleman, Flesh, Farmers

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• Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Artist, Actors

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• The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

  Hedda Hopper

  Dream, Genius, Stuff

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.

  Renata Adler

  Sexy, Lying, Giving

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• For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

  Will Smith

  People, Actors, Theater

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• Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

  Nate Silver

  Twilight, Cat, Data Collection

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

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• Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

  Hedda Hopper

  Eye, Heart, Men

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “The Whole Truth and Nothing But”, p.266, Graymalkin Media

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• Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

  Tom Sizemore

  Men, Actors, Reason Why

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• I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Ocean, Scripts, Kind

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• Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

  Renata Adler

  People, Very Good, Knows

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Writing, Actors, Hundred

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• I did a movie in Esperanto.

  William Shatner

  Esperanto, Actors

  "It's 'Shatner's World' And He Wants You To See It". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 18, 2012.

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• I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

  Milla Jovovich

  Artist, Years, Actors

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