Movie Quotes - Page 2

• Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Stars

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• A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

  David Mamet

  Able, Scripts, Film

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

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• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Taken, Skills, Careers

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• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  Christopher Nolan

  Inspiring, Actors, Needs

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

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• Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

  Henry Travers

  Life, Christmas, Men

  "Fictional character: Clarence Oddbody". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Hands, Play

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• Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

  Roman Polanski

  Inspiring, Humorous, Profound

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Sex, Forever

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

  Rosalind Russell

  Giving, Theatre, Half

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• Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

  Douglas Horton

  Hero, Actors, Tickets

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• The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

  Jodie Foster

  Film, Reason, Feels

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• Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Editing, Directors, Cinema

  "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.

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• You're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Peter Benchley

  Inspirational, Radio News, Film History

  "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.

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• The motion picture is the people's Art.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Art, People, Motion Pictures

  Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”

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• I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.

  Ben Burtt

  Creating, House, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The monster was the best friend I ever had.

  Boris Karloff

  Friendship, Best Friend, Character

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

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• Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Humorous, Annie Hall

  Annie Hall (motion picture) (1977). Cowritten with Marshall Brickman.

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• The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

  Christian Bale

  Interesting, Actors, Interesting Things

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Music, Art, Jobs

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• We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

  Walt Disney

  Inspiring, Business, Making Money

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• What we got here is a failure to communicate.

  Paul Newman

  Top 100, Communicate, All Time Greatest

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• As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

  Ray Liotta

  Mafia, Mobster, Remember

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• The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Inspiration, Fronts

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America". Book by Daniel Joseph Boorstein, 1963.

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Sisterhood, Epic

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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