882 private quotes tagged movies

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” — Mary Pickford

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“The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?” — Orlando Bloom

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“Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.” — Jeff Bridges

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“Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.” — Johnny Depp

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“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.” — Jean-Luc Godard

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“I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.” — Jonah Hill

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“I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.” — Oskar Werner

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“The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.” — Mary Schmich

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“I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.” — Alton Brown

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“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” — Stanley Kubrick

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“If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.” — Dario Argento

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“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.” — Alfred Hitchcock

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“Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books, they're not the theatre.” — Nicolas Roeg

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“I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.” — Jeff Bridges

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“Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.” — Pauline Kael

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“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.” — Douglas Sirk

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“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.” — Jean Cocteau

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“Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.” — Yahoo Serious

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“Everything makes me nervous - except making films.” — Elizabeth Taylor

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“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.” — John Hughes

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“You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.” — Tim Roth

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“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” — Samuel Goldwyn

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“I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.” — Jean-Luc Godard

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“When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.” — Sydney Pollack

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“I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.” — LL Cool J

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