882 private quotes tagged movies

“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.” — Kathryn Bigelow

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“Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.” — Ang Lee

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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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“I make movies I want to see.” — Neil LaBute

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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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“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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“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'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.” — Christopher Walken

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“Movies are different from real life.” — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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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 long does that last?” — Amanda Seyfried

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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 wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.” — Trent Reznor

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“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.” — Christopher Walken

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“My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.” — John Cusack

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“I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.” — Clive Owen

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“And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.” — Mike Myers

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“I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.” — Robert Rodriguez

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“My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.” — Albert Brooks

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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 was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.” — Robert Rodriguez

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“If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.” — Adam Duritz

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“Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.” — Jeff Bridges

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“How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.” — Keanu Reeves

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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 Zwick

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“I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.” — Paul Feig

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