882 private quotes tagged movies

“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 want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.” — Nicolas Cage

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“I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.” — Charlie Kaufman

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“I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.” — Nicolas Cage

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“Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.” — Danny Boyle

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“I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.” — Kevin Costner

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

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“There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.” — Kevin Costner

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“I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.” — Kevin Costner

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“I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.” — Kevin Costner

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“When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.” — Kiefer Sutherland

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“I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.” — Orlando Bloom

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“I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.” — Sharon Stone

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“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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“My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.” — Vanessa Hudgens

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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 all art.” — Ice Cube

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“I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.” — Christopher Meloni

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“People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.” — Edward Norton

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“The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.” — Jason Statham

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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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“Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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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've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.” — Orlando Bloom

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“My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.” — Jane Fonda

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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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