882 private quotes tagged movies

“My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.” — Jean Claude Van Damme

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“The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.” — David Cronenberg

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“But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.” — David Cronenberg

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“I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.” — Ian MacKaye

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“My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.” — Shailene Woodley

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“I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.” — Shailene Woodley

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“Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.” — Gary Ross

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“I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'” — Tim Heidecker

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“A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.” — Tim Heidecker

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“On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.” — Tim Heidecker

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“Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.” — Matt Damon

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“I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.” — Zoe Kazan

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“I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.” — Tim Heidecker

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“Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.” — Vincent Cassel

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“I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.” — Matt LeBlanc

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“If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.” — Tim Heidecker

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“Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?” — Jean Claude Van Damme

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“That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.” — Matt Damon

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“I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.” — Joel Silver

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“A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.” — Joel Silver

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“It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.” — Jon Landau

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“The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.” — Joel Silver

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“I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.” — Joel Silver

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“I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.” — Matthew Fox

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“I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.” — Ken Burns

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