882 private quotes tagged movies

“In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'” — Zach Braff

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“I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.” — Famke Janssen

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“I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.” — Werner Herzog

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“I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.” — Patrick Wilson

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“The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.” — M. Night Shyamalan

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“Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.” — Keira Knightley

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“I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.” — Famke Janssen

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“Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.” — M. Night Shyamalan

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“I manage to hide in my movies.” — Liev Schreiber

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“All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.” — Thomas Lennon

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“If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.” — Naomi Watts

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“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.” — Frank Miller

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“When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.” — M. Night Shyamalan

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“And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.” — Niklas Zennstrom

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“I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.” — Michelle Rodriguez

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“I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.” — Keira Knightley

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“I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.” — Jodie Foster

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“I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.” — Jodie Foster

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“Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.” — David Cronenberg

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“I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.” — Frank Miller

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“So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.” — Jodie Foster

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“The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.” — M. Night Shyamalan

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“I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.” — Famke Janssen

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“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.” — Jodie Foster

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“Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.” — Famke Janssen

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