Movie Quotes - Page 8

• If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Special, Actors, Reason

  "King of bling" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

  Obie Trice

  Writing, Ideas, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Real, Mind, Events

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

  John Dykstra

  Thinking, Actors, Ends

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• All my movies are achingly personal.

  Quentin Tarantino

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• There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Actresses, Actors

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• For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

  David Fincher

  Stupid, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Mark Salisbury, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

  Shirley Temple

  Distance, Personality, World

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

  Adam Sandler

  Actors, Wanted

  "Adam Sandler, Adam Shankman, Russell Brand, Keri Russell and Matt Lopez Interview BEDTIME STORIES". collider.com. December 21, 2008.

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• What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

  Shana Alexander

  Life, Running, Stars

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

  Aisha Tyler

  Believe, Superhero, Fantastic

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• One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

  Ron Howard

  Inspiring, Choices, Challenges

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• You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

  Christina Ricci

  Ideas, People, Stories

  "Christina Ricci Sheds Some Light on Penelope". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 28, 2008.

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• The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

  Christina Ricci

  Successful, Actors, May

  "Christina Ricci: The One and Only". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 2001.

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• I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

  Oliver Stone

  Believe, Different Interpretations, Subjects

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• I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

  Keanu Reeves

  Thinking, Quality, Hollywood

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

  Elvis Presley

  Dream, Children, Book

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• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  Radha Mitchell

  Stars, Actors, Wanted

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• I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Money, Mind, Suits

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• Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Able, Infinity

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• I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

  Tom Hardy

  Dog, Xbox, Boys

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• How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

  David Fincher

  One Day At A Time, One Day, Actors

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• A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Inspiring, Events, Cost

  "Thinking outside the box office" by Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 01, 2005.

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• The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.

  Eric Stoltz

  College, Actors, Cameras

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• I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

  Michael Biehn

  Block, Writing, Decision

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