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Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

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I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractio...

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John Kennedy TooleA Confederacy of Dunces

Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost ...

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Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and t...

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Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema,...

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Katherine MansfieldJe ne parle pas français

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. ...

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People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always ...

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Kevin SmithTough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For...

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Kirk DouglasClimbing The Mountain: My Search For Meaning

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes ho...

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Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. Mor...

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Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the scre...

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Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, a...

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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to oth...

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The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which w...

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Martin ScorseseA Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are sca...

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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wante...

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Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actu...

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The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *...

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That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyo...

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It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family,...

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In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and s...

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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic ...

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I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap re...

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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or com...

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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason t...

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A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slippin...

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Pauline KaelFor Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistake...

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Pauline KaelKiss Kiss Bang Bang: Film Writings

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "...

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No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw t...

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I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on ...

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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is ...

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Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish...

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Quentin TarantinoPulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missin...

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Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airpo...

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I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I...

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No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing,...

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The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience f...

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Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love...

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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in...

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It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to...

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If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar s...

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Ross MacdonaldArcher in Hollywood: The Moving Target

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceles...

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In Woody Allen movies people stood in line for Ingmar Bergman films or Holocaust documentaries talki...

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If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational....

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When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...

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If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—bec...

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Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it'...

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Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so th...

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I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies...

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Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone...

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People go to the movies instead of moving.

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, ...

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Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobb...

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Wanna see how creepy I can be?"-Mr Teatime

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af...

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Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the ...

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If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriousl...

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Really good films don't diminish anything, they don't close things off. On the contrary, they open u...

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Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure me...

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Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...

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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...

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I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched ...

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids l...

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...I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that ...

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Anita LoosGentlemen Prefer Blondes

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Everything I learned I learned from themovies.

Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions