Movie Quotes - Page 6

• The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

  Peter Jackson

  Becoming One, Actors, Form

  "James Cameron, Peter Jackson on Film Technology". www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2009.

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Would Be, Actors, Television

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• A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

  Francois Truffaut

  Film, Boat, Break

  Interview in Peter Graham's, The New Wave, 1968.

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• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Kitchen, Meals

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• It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Film History, Insightful, Wonderful

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• There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Money, Giving, Actors

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• Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

  Vincent Cassel

  Fun, People, Stills

  "Vincent Cassel: A Q&A With the Black Swan Star". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Breathing, People, Necks

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• Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

  Ivan Reitman

  Kind, Achieve, Delicate

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• I've always wanted to do a space movie.

  Danny Boyle

  Space, Actors, Wanted

  Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. March 14, 2007.

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• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Independent, United States, Difficult

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• This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Integrity, Offering, Careers

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• I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Charlize Theron And Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Shelley Winters

  Mean, Loss, Player

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• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  Jack Valenti

  Decay, Moral, Crime

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• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  School, Kids, Graduates

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• I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

  Gene Siskel

  Heroism, Able, Schindler

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• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  Dan Simmons

  Three, Four, Definitions

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• I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

  Grace Jones

  Light, Style, Details

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• However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Actors, Filmmaking, Polish

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• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too

  Max von Sydow

  Country, Opportunity, Men

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• On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

  Tim Heidecker

  Stylist, Way, Behave

  "EXCLUSIVE: Tim Heidecker Talks The Comedy" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. November 08, 2012.

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• A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

  Tim Heidecker

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• There's an electrical thing about movies.

  Oliver Stone

  Gambling, Actors, Electrical

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• People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

  Neil LaBute

  People, Bits

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