Movie Quotes - Page 22

• I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

  Eric Stoltz

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Fisher Stevens

  New York, Cities, Facts

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

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• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

  Bruce Sterling

  Shoes, Bollywood, Literature

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• I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

  Mel Smith

  Thinking, Credit, London

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• I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

  Darren Aronofsky

  Actors, Narrative, Filmmaking

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• But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

  Ethan Suplee

  Confused, Thinking, Actors

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

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• Movies are too literal.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Literal

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• I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Heartbroken, Pain, Journey

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• I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Teenager, School, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

  Bette Midler

  Ecosystems, Sick, Film

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• Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Ideas, Style

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• The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

  Ayn Rand

  Stars, Moving, People

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.459, Penguin

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• Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

  Nora Ephron

  Women, Years, Looks

  "Nora Ephron (1941-2012): An appreciation" by Ty Burr, www.boston.com. June 27, 2012.

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• They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

  Alex Winter

  Fun, Ems, Innocence

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

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• When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Writing, Editing, Discovery

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• Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

  Jason Statham

  Inspired, Busy, Jet

  Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

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• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  Ed Wood

  Successful, Thinking, Needs

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• And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Reason Why, Concern, Corporate

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• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Sean Young

  People, Actors, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Girl, America, Wife

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• A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Money, Actors, Novelty

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

  Edward Zwick

  Thinking, Experience, Catharsis

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

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• It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

  Terence Stamp

  Beauty, Thinking, Guy

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• For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

  Wim Wenders

  Years, Culture, Lobbying

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

  Jason Lee

  Stars, Kids, Character

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.

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