Movie Quotes - Page 7

• I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Thinking, Way, Violence

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• Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

  John Updike

  Views, Imagine, Sunlight

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.39, Random House

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• But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

  Mike Figgis

  Strong, Desire, Needs

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• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  Peter Bart

  Summer, Past, Years

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• For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

  Guillermo del Toro

  Eight, Years, Made

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• We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, People, May

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• When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

  Rick Moranis

  Thinking, Say Anything, Actors

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• A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

  Renny Harlin

  Government, Foundation, Actors

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  Gary Oldman

  Magic, Actors, Littles

  "Actor Gary Oldman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2011.

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• If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

  Michael Caine

  Directors, Actors, Stage

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

  Richard Donner

  Hurt, Couple, Horny

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• I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

  John Malkovich

  Eight, Talking, Years

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

  Diablo Cody

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

  Guillermo del Toro

  Thinking, Needs, Units

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• I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

  Ahmet Zappa

  Loyalty, Memories, Dad

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

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• License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Bond Movie, License, Great Bond

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• Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

  John Malkovich

  Pitfalls, Actors, Done

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2010.

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• We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Games, Growth, Actors

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• My dad took me to my first movie.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Actors, Firsts

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

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• The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

  Sarah Zettel

  Fantasy, Lord, Standards

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• In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

  Ben Hecht

  Art, Adventure, Mind

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• Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

  John Steinbeck

  Sorrow, Enough, Wells

  "The Grapes of Wrath".

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• The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Art, Coffee

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

  Scott Caan

  Writing, Bored, Kind

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

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• I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

  Neil LaBute

  People, Would Be, Fiction

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