882 private quotes tagged movies

“When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.” — Michael Moore

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“Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?” — Kate Hudson

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“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.” — Matt Damon

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“I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.” — Scott Caan

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“I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.” — Penny Marshall

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“The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.” — Laura Dern

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“The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.” — Scott Caan

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“The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.” — Joel Silver

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“At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!” — John Hughes

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“The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.” — Joel Silver

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“In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.” — Wesley Morris

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“I think it would be fun to write about movies again.” — Bill Condon

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“Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.” — Bill Condon

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“Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.” — Joel Silver

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“Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.” — Mandy Patinkin

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“I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.” — Joel Silver

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“I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.” — Vincent Cassel

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“When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.” — Vincent Cassel

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“I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.” — Laura Dern

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“What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.” — Peter Jackson

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“No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'” — Bill Condon

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“In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.” — Mira Nair

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“Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.” — Vincent Cassel

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“I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'” — Bill Condon

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“Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.” — Reed Hastings

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