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).
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“I don’t like comedy. I like funny things. I don’t like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, ‘Oh Jesus.’” -Louis C. K.
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“The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.” -Billy Joel
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“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as ‘Tarzan’ and in programs such as ‘Ramar of the Jungle’ and ‘Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.’” -Henry Louis Gates
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“I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.” -Joan Jett
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“Movies make you immortal and ageless.” -Kristin Scott Thomas
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“Before ‘Schindler’s List,’ I wouldn’t have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.” -Liam Neeson
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“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.” -Catherine Deneuve
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“I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.” -Megan Fox
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“When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father’s hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.” -Charles Kuralt
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“I really don’t have favorites I’m just a fan of movies, period.” -Michael Clarke Duncan
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“You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.” -J. D. Salinger
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“I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.” -Tim Burton
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“I’ve seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.” -Martin Scorsese
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“My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we’re still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.” -Michael…
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“I have done many movies that people hadn’t seen. ‘The Fountain,’ I spent a year on that. ‘The Prestige’ with Chris Nolan, and ‘Australia.’ From my perspective it’s very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don’t. ‘Wolverine,’ ‘X Men,’ I know that in some level people know me just for that and…
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“I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.” -Marco Rubio
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“I don’t want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry – directors and producers – are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
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“I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.” -Christina Aguilera
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“Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies.” -Jeff Bridges
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“Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.” -Aishwarya Rai
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“Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren’t allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn’t really know anything different. That’s how I was raised.” -Katy Perry
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“I didn’t grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.” -Sydney Pollack
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“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.” -Steven Spielberg
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“There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because it’s essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclay’s endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece ‘The Clock.’” -Jerry Saltz
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“I’ve been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.” -Alanis Morissette
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“I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn’t being made.” -Michael J. Fox
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“I can be in 20 movies. But I’ll never be an actor.” -Jon Stewart
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“Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.” -David Lynch
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“My movies are okay, but they’re not my specials.” -Chris Rock
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“I’m not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.” -Steve Guttenberg
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“Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role… I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘We want to remake ‘The Jerk’ with so and so.’ And…
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“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.” -Bette Davis
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“I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea…
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“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with…
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“So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I’m on the set, but I don’t take myself seriously as an actor.” -Henry Rollins
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“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.” -Johnny Depp
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“There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.” -Clint Eastwood
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“I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that’s different than you imagine it.” -Alex Winter
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“I’ve always been an animal lover. I’ve grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on ‘Lassie’, I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.” -Will Estes
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“Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.” -Dennis Quaid
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“Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.” -Roland Emmerich
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“It couldn’t sound like a dog, because K9 isn’t a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.” -John Leeson
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“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there…
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“I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.” -Will Smith
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“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don’t.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.” -Jean-Luc Godard
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“Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ‘bus movie.’” -Sandra Bullock
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“You read a script and its based on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’, and it goes right in the bin.” -Tim Roth
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“I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.” -Oskar Werner
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“Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.” -Pauline Kael
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“Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.” -Wim Wenders
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“Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.” -Yahoo Serious
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“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.” -John Hughes
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“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.” -Douglas Sirk
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“Movies are not scripts – movies are films they’re not books, they’re not the theatre.” -Nicolas Roeg
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“A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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“It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.” -Andy Warhol
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“Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.” -Samuel Goldwyn
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“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.” -Billy Wilder
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“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” -Jean Cocteau
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“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.” -Federico Fellini
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“The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.” -George Lucas
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“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” -Mary Pickford
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“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” -Walt Disney
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“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.” -Will Rogers
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“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” -Stanley Kubrick
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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” -Orson Welles
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“If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.” -Woody Allen
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“I never enjoyed working in a film.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“Everything makes me nervous – except making films.” -Elizabeth Taylor
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