movies

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘movies’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we’re talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade’s non-teen culture has no staying power at all.” -Rob Sheffield

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  • “‘Immortals’ is all action. I love action movies. That’s really where I want to spearhead my career.” -Kellan Lutz

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  • “I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.” -Jane Seymour

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  • “I think as an American society, when we’re paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don’t want to see sad things at the movies.” -Zoe Saldana

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  • “TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day’s lines while you are shooting today’s scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.” -Sharon Stone

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  • “I think I made good movies.” -Jane Campion

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  • “I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it’s fun to do a mix.” -Emma Roberts

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  • “A lot of times, we’re just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it’s not so good.” -Josh Radnor

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  • “I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.” -Dane Cook

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  • “I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.” -Stanislav Grof

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  • “I’ve had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.” -Ted Turner

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  • “I love crying at romantic movies like ‘The Notebook.’ I’m always bawling.” -Fergie

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  • “In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they’re not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It’s a product.” -Charlie Kaufman

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  • “I’m very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.” -Jason Aldean

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  • “Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.” -Anna Deavere Smith

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  • “There’s too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.” -Jeremy Renner

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  • “The trouble with movies as a business is that it’s an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it’s a business.” -Charlton Heston

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  • “I find that you learn from others. It’s very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.” -Callan McAuliffe

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  • “Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.” -Manuel Puig

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  • “Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.” -Eartha Kitt

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  • “The only thing I can’t do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.” -Marlee Matlin

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  • “All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.” -Tony Scott

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  • “I never think it’s right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I’ll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I’ll forget I’m chewing it. Then you don’t want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I’ve asked to throw…

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  • “I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.” -Mike Myers

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  • “To be honest, I don’t enjoy watching movies much when I’m working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.” -Christopher Nolan

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  • “But most good movies have a gun in them.” -David Sedaris

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  • “There’s definitely a large fan base for the ‘Twilight’ and ‘Harry Potter’ movies that need their next fix.” -Josh Hutcherson

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  • “If I did any movies I’d have to take a break from singing, because I’d want it to be really good.” -Justin Timberlake

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  • “The music led to the acting. But movies aren’t something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.” -Ice T

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  • “I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the ’80s and ’90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.” -Hulk Hogan

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  • “I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I’m not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.” -Tony Kushner

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  • “I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.” -Jennifer Garner

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  • “On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.” -Bil Keane

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  • “Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister’s head using alginating plaster.” -J. J. Abrams

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  • “I don’t see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.” -Maggie Gyllenhaal

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  • “I feel like I’m a fighter. I’ve fought my whole life to get to where I’m at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.” -Rick Schroder

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  • “I really unfortunately don’t have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people’s movies and I think that’s the way to do it.” -Lizzy Caplan

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  • “I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.” -Zac Efron

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  • “Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What’s that all about? I’ve got kids and family and friends, and I don’t like bad things. I don’t think they’re funny, and it’s irresponsible to make movies that don’t show you how that’s not good.” -Billy Bob Thornton

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  • “I’m a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I’m not doing anything at night, I’m usually watching a movie or two.” -Dominic Monaghan

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  • “I really don’t like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.” -Anna Chlumsky

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  • “Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there’s a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.” -Javier Bardem

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  • “I think what’s dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, ‘Well, I can totally handle myself now.’ But if my opponent didn’t know the other half of the routine, I don’t know how well I’d do.” -Kate Beckinsale

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  • “I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.” -Adriana Lima

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  • “Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.” -Bjork

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  • “With the CGI, suddenly there’s a thousand enemies instead of six – the army goes off into the horizon. You don’t need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That’s something that’s consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that’s a soulless enterprise. It’s all kinetics…

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  • “I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.” -Marguerite Moreau

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  • “I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.” -Ben Affleck

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  • “Working on the ‘Ice Age’ movies, I’m really proud to be in them.” -Seann William Scott

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  • “I was terrified to do ‘G.I. Joe.’ I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn’t work, it’s a huge hit on your career. People are like, ‘Well he couldn’t make a $170 million movie work. I don’t want him in…

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  • “The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don’t do well, after a while you don’t get to make any more movies.” -Joaquin Phoenix

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  • “People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.” -Debra Winger

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  • “I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.” -Vera Farmiga

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  • “I am a filmmaker. That is all I’ve ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.” -Alton Brown

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  • “Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don’t go to a movie hoping it’ll change my life.” -Alice Cooper

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  • “I’m a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.” -Michael Sheen

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  • “Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when you’ve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people’s ability to do that.” -Joan Didion

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  • “My interest in film is sort of catholic – apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything.” -James Dyson

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  • “I love going to movies.” -Serena Williams

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  • “I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.” -Charlize Theron

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  • “I don’t think we’re living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.” -Gabriel Byrne

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  • “And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that’s what is required of the industry today.” -Halle Berry

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  • “The movies people don’t talk about or remember after six months’ time don’t really matter.” -Eric Bana

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  • “Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.” -Conrad Hall

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  • “Well, it was actually – I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.” -Monica Lewinsky

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  • “The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.” -Roger Ebert

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  • “It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.” -Al Pacino

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  • “I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn’t have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.” -Jane…

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  • “I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn’t really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I…

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  • “I was watching ‘Up In The Air’ and I thought, ‘Jesus, who’s the old gray-haired guy?’ And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it’s starting to show.” -George Clooney

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  • “The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.” -Rachel McAdams

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  • “My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.” -Vanessa Hudgens

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  • “I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.” -Sean Connery

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  • “Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.” -Gabrielle Union

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  • “I’m a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.” -Shaquille O’Neal

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  • “Jet was very busy. I’ve been inspired by a lot of his movies.” -Jason Statham

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  • “There’s an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn’t disagree more.” -Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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  • “I couldn’t survive just doing independent movies. And I’d rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn’t like.” -Chloe Sevigny

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  • “I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I’ve asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That’s really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.” -Leonardo…

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  • “I like to think the movies that I’ve picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.” -Mark Ruffalo

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  • “I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s…

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  • “I want to make movies that pierce people’s hearts and touch them in some way, even if it’s just for the night while they’re in the cinema in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.” -Russell Crowe

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  • “I like four-hour movies.” -Kevin Costner

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  • “I’ve never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you’re kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there’s more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast…

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  • “I mean, I kind of remember… I’m 36 now, so it’s kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that’s how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I…

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  • “There are a lot of movies I’d like to throw away. That’s not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don’t work.” -Kiefer Sutherland

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  • “Movies like that aren’t about the visual effects and explosions. They’re human stories about family, about life, about death.” -Orlando Bloom

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  • “I just love movies.” -Edward Norton

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  • “I do enjoy animated movies.” -Nicolas Cage

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  • “I like the good feeling movies.” -Robert Duvall

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  • “I don’t stop. It’s my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do ‘Evita.’ I want to do ‘Sweeney Todd’ with Chris Colfer. We want to do ‘Wicked.’ I’ll be Elphaba and he wants to play ‘Guy-linda.’ I want to do movies,…

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  • “I love John Waters. There’s stuff in it that’s beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.” -Tracey Ullman

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  • “I’ll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I’ll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she’s still doing the same thing.” -Lindsay Lohan

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  • “I haven’t deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it’s probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn’t offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the…

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  • “All I do is go to the movies.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  • “All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.” -Harvey Weinstein

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  • “Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.” -James Stewart

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  • “I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.” -Natalie Wood

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  • “I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.” -Bill Vaughan

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  • “Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.” -Juliette Binoche

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  • “I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it’s just too bright. Don’t know why, it’s not warm.” -Jack White

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  • “Movies about space raise those questions of what we’re doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.” -Danny Boyle

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  • “I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.” -Sophia Bush

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  • “I don’t make movies thinking: ‘Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.’” -Diane Kruger

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  • “Sundance is weird. The movies are weird – you actually have to think about them when you watch them.” -Britney Spears

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  • “There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life – really! But even those movies that I’d like to forget teach me things.” -Antonio Banderas

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  • “The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It’s not going to put any other type of movies out of business.” -Tom Hanks

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  • “I hadn’t made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there’s a sort of man and boys situation. You’re a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it’s harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.” -Gus Van Sant

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  • “Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I’ve made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time – they are my audience. They’re the people that I think about while I’m writing, directing, and editing. I…

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  • “You have to understand that crew members make movies so they’re seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.” -Philip Seymour Hoffman

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  • “The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.” -LL Cool J

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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

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  • “When you go to the movies with your whole family, it’s a different experience. For some reason, it’s something that you’re all doing together and you take away something special in that.” -Vin Diesel

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  • “But then I go through long periods where I don’t listen to things, usually when I’m working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.” -Bruce Springsteen

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  • “I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, ‘I really want to be part of that,’ but not realizing what that was.” -Leighton Meester

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  • “I want to make timeless movies.” -Fred Durst

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  • “When I started to watch some of the films I’d done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.” -Heath Ledger

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  • “I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people’s favorite movies. And that’s what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.” -Christian Bale

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  • “I can’t watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.” -Ashley Tisdale

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  • “There are movies where we are interested in seeing people’s lives without agreeing with what they’re doing.” -Natalie Portman

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  • “I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.” -Laura Linney

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  • “The best movies have one sentence that they’re exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.” -Helen Hunt

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  • “I don’t know why I don’t watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn’t enough time in life.” -Meryl Streep

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  • “I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there’ll be no time when I feel I’ve done it all.” -Jennifer Lopez

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  • “I’ve made movies that I thought were good. I’ve made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you’re in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that – because you’re good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that’s show business.”…

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  • “I aim for a lifetime full of movies.” -Salma Hayek

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  • “It was like in Samoa when they’d put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.” -Dick Wolf

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  • “Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.” -Dean Koontz

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  • “It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.” -Denzel Washington

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  • “Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling – that there’s nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I…

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  • “I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.” -Sylvester Stallone

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  • “Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

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  • “Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it’s still evolving in different ways.” -David Mamet

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  • “I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.” -Lana Parrilla

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  • “I think it’s more interesting to see people who don’t feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don’t feel anything at all for things I’m supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It’s not always like it is in the movies.” -Ryan Gosling

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  • “I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.” -Gary Oldman

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  • “If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don’t want to just make spy movies.” -Daniel Craig

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  • “Most movies, once the action starts there’s no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there’s just explosions until the end.” -John Cusack

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  • “Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don’t choose to see Horror movies as a rule.” -Tom Sizemore

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  • “Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies.” -Clive Owen

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  • “A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn’t intend to be there.” -Spike Lee

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  • “In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.” -Stephen Sondheim

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  • “Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.” -Haruki Murakami

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  • “It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.” -James Wolcott

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  • “Movies are movies, and I don’t think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.” -Richard Pryor

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  • “Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.” -Adam Sandler

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  • “I wouldn’t like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.” -Stevie Nicks

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  • “I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.” -Carrie Underwood

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  • “I don’t know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don’t know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise’s movies because they’re on a kind of fantastic level.” -Kim Cattrall

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  • “I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “People feel the worst film I made was ‘Jack.’ But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I’ve made, ‘Jack’ is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.” -Francis Ford Coppola

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  • “It’s a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do – you’re proud of it – and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.” -Kristen Stewart

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  • “I mean, why am I considered an ‘it girl?’ Because I’m in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here’s the thing with ‘it girl’ status. It’s great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how…

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  • “You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I’ve done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there’s a lot of work that goes into it.” -Harry Connick, Jr.

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  • “More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense.” -Marc Andreessen

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  • “I’m not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.” -David Bailey

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  • “Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I’m put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.” -David Ogden Stiers

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  • “I love movies that make me cry, because they’re tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?” -John Lasseter

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  • “It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.” -Vincent D’Onofrio

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  • “I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.” -Jenny McCarthy

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

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  • “People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” -Morgan Freeman

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  • “When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.” -Jackie Chan

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  • “Movies such as ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ in 1939 to ‘Dave’ in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen – decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.” -Ron Fournier

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  • “I don’t know why, but I’ve always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.” -Diablo Cody

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  • “Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went…

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  • “Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he’d have me put on a jacket to see a film.” -Ralph Fiennes

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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

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  • “Making movies is not rocket science. It’s about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That’s a challenge. When it works, it’s fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn’t work, it’s almost just as fascinating.” -Julia Roberts

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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…

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  • “I think it’s better to be involved in one or two movies a year.” -Eric Cantona

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  • “I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.” -Shirley MacLaine

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  • “Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.” -Demi Lovato

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  • “What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films – their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.” -John Podhoretz

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  • “Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.” -Anthony Hopkins

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  • “I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.” -Sting

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  • “I used to love to go to the movies – I’d see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started… now that I think about it, that’s kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don’t sneak in…

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  • “When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.” -Keanu Reeves

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  • “3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we’re just taking baby steps, we’re just in the beginning.” -Ang Lee

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  • “I think that’s what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There’s no melodrama there’s no device, It’s just about a human being.” -Jack Nicholson

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