882 private quotes tagged movies

“When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.” — Elizabeth Hurley

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“I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.” — Famke Janssen

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“I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.” — Zach Braff

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“My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.” — Ivan Reitman

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“I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.” — Mark Wahlberg

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“I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.” — Matt Damon

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“The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.” — Michael Mandelbaum

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“Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.” — Gary Ross

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“James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.” — Mark Wahlberg

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“Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.” — Tom Clancy

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“When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.” — Barbet Schroeder

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“Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.” — George A. Romero

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“There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.” — Michelle Pfeiffer

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“The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.” — Ewan McGregor

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“'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.” — Gary Ross

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“It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.” — Selma Blair

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“Movies are about escape.” — George A. Romero

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“All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.” — Mark Wahlberg

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“I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.” — Janeane Garofalo

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“And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.” — Ridley Scott

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“The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.” — George A. Romero

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“I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.” — Gary Ross

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“I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'” — Gary Ross

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“I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.” — Leelee Sobieski

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“Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.” — Frank Ocean

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