Quotes with movie

  • Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.
  • I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
  • My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
  • The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
  • If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
  • On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
  • And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
  • It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
  • The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
  • Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.
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  • Jack Nicholson If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.
    Jack Nicholson
    American actor and filmmaker (born 1937) (1937 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • C. C. H. Pounder 'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Bel Powley 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Bill Hader A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • D.B.C. Pierre A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
    Release the Bats: Writing Your Way Out Of It
    D.B.C. Pierre
    Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Billy Burke Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you're making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you'd never know.
    Billy Burke
    American actor
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  • Clive James All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Brian De Palma And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Berenice Marlohe And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • Barry Levinson Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Doug Horton Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Barry Eisler Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Brad Bird But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Abel Ferrara But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Callie Khouri Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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