Old Movie Quotes - Page 2

• My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

  John Cusack

  Summer, Dad, Player

  "John Cusack, Gen X’s Favorite Antihero". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. July/August, 2008.

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• Let's put it in old movie Mafia terms. There are guys that are in position to get by but they didn't wait their turn. They back-doored the top guy to get the power. For example, Sonny Corleone went up there, and he wanted to be the top guy. And the Godfather said, 'You know what dude, I'm a star.' That's what I'm doing now, and that's what I was trying to do with what's-his-name.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Stars, Names

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• I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

  Amy Heckerling

  Movie Love, Tvs, Youth

  "Interview with Vamps Director Amy Heckerling". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.

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• If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.

  Pauline Kael

  Years, People, Effort

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

  Eli Wallach

  Book, Home, Acting

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• I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from.  I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to do—that painters do—study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Numbers, Giving

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• Jacks stood beside her. Instead of saying anything, she felt his fingers trace up her palm and then lace into hers. He had taken her hand before, quickly and for functional reasons—usually to drag her off to someplace she didn’t want to go—but he had never held her hand. Not the way couples did in parks or lovers did in old movies. Maddy stood there and felt the heat of his grip. It made her think of that first night in the diner, when they had talked about pretend memories and she had felt so connected to him.

  Scott Speer

  Couple, Memories, Taken

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• Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

  Cornelia Funke

  Running, Hair, Venice

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• I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

  Susie Bright

  Daughter, Mother, My Daughter

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• It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

  Warren Beatty

  Feel Good, Made, Feels

  The Disc Dish Interview, www.discdish.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

  John Ashbery

  Dream, Mind, Dialogue

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never really put pressure on myself to make things seem new and spontaneous, mostly because I think everything is kind of derivative at this point. I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies. Those relationships are kind of where I've gotten inspiration for this character and this relationship. But I think what makes it new is just the words coming out of my mouth personally, and my take on it based on my own personal life experience is hopefully going to add something a little different, and add some flavor to it.

  Judy Greer

  Girl, Friday, Baby

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you see old movies, there were so many beautiful actresses. Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were beautiful... They were all so glamorous. You never saw them in their dungarees and their gym suits. They always looked fabulous.

  Fredric Brandt

  Beautiful, Fabulous, Glamorous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, "You couldn't make those old movies today." I think there's more ways to get a movie made today than ever in the history of the entertainment industry. It's a very exciting time to work in movies, if you're a creative person looking to make a very personal, weird vision.

  Edward Norton

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Sometimes I feel like a complete kid when I'm running around with my friends being stupid for a week, and then sometimes I just want to sit in my house and sip tea and watch old movies like I'm 60.

  Kendall Jenner

  Running, Stupid, Kids

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• My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.

  Elisa Kreisinger

  Home, Cutting, Hands

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• I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.

  Ruthie Foster

  Pain, Emotional, Handle

  "Ruthie Foster: Love More and Openly". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can get a script and go, "Well, I'd rather do stand-up." I don't hold movies in higher regard. I love making videos and posting. I love TV.

  Sarah Silverman

  Video, Scripts, Tvs

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Growing Up, Heart, Past

  "Interview: Cassandra Peterson Celebrates 35 Years of Elvira with New Book ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK". Interview with Jonathan James, dailydead.com. October 4, 2016.

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• My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

  Lily Collins

  Mom, Growing Up, Icons

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  People, Hearing, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I would call Night Music a romantic comedy. I don't know if you are familiar with an old movie called The Ghost and Mrs. Muir? It is an older film. It's more about the romance than it is necessarily a horror flick.

  Boti Bliss

  Thinking, Night, Romance

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

  Boti Bliss

  Independent, Noir, Film

  Source: actionflickchick.com

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• A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

  Winona Ryder

  Mind, Really Sad, Theater

  Source: collider.com

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• I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

  Lily Collins

  Mom, Hollywood, Grew

  "Lily Collins Explores Her Love of Old Hollywood and Vintage Clothing in 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. June 23, 2016.

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