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Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Everything I learned I learned from themovies.
We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.
Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of ...
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In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star
I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can ...
Show MoreJerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...
Show More@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happen...
Show MoreIn the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author...
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You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your f...
Show MoreMovies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.
Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what the...
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Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
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people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g...
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It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on ...
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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is tha...
Show MoreIt was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us...
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We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...
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The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if...
Show MoreBruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as put...
Show MoreMorning is the best time to see movies.
TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Inte...
Show MoreJust watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say ...
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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated co...
Show Moresome soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watc...
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That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They giv...
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The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it th...
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There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the direc...
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Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at the...
Show MoreThat's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".
That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".
I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so ...
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In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mai...
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Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't reall...
Show MoreYou see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.
Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yea...
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One of the most interesting accomplishments of the film community, it seems to me, is that it has ma...
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The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, ...
Show MoreToday I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets
Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' wa...
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Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]....
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Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in...
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Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the v...
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(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened...
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We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to ...
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I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal ...
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Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath t...
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Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...
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The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone t...
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Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'H...
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Eliza...
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I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produ...
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All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Child...
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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesti...
Show MoreUltimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You'...
Show MoreStarting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get...
Show MoreI won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn no...
Show MoreThe movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always starte...
Show MoreWe have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan...
Show MoreI love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what...
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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of ...
Show More...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more picture...
Show MoreWatching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.
Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice abou...
Show MoreHow speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been ...
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Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything...
Show MoreIt did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...
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But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not...
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I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smel...
Show MoreI could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town si...
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Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
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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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 ...
Show MoreCan 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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Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. ...
Show MorePeople 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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The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For...
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I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes ho...
Show MoreLittle 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.