Movie Quotes

• You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

  

  Rider Strong
  • War
  • Green
  • Pretending

• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Family
  • Character
  • Film

• I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Sound
  • Beer Belly

• You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • World
  • Movie
  • Connect

• 'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.

  

  Miles Teller
  • People
  • Movie
  • Footloose

• Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Truth
  • Movie
  • Marketing

• I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

  

  Michael Biehn
  • Movie
  • Violence
  • Saws

• When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Movie

• I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Movie

• The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.

  

  Negin Farsad
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Creative

• I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie Christine, and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Christine
  • John Carpenter
  • Private investigator

• Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Movie
  • TV Show
  • Leading Role

• Anymore cutting and the movie would be as silly as cutting a condensed Reader's Digest novel.

  

  Charles Willeford
  • Movie
  • Cutting
  • Silly

• 'Alien?' Oh, yeah. I still get fanmail almost every week, pictures from all over the world on that movie. That's one of the most popular films I've done.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • World
  • Movie
  • Pictures

• In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Shows
  • Generations

• I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

  

  Francis Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Damage

• My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Movie
  • Dad
  • The Greatest Show on Earth

• If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.

  

  Sidney Sheinberg
  • Hours
  • Guarantee
  • Steven Spielberg

• Bonnie and Clyde became not just a big hit, but a movie that went through young audiences like a first slug of Scotch. It affected clothes, talk, manners. Though set in the thirties it had the feeling of 1966, the most dangerous moment in American young people remembered.

  

  Edward Jay Epstein
  • American
  • Audience
  • Remembered

• With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Movie
  • Inspiration

• It's interesting because First Wives Club was the first movie that made a shitload of money that starred all women over a certain age. That was a milestone that made you think, "Oh, things are going to change."

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Money
  • Movie
  • First Wives Club

• I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Movie

• They are getting tougher and tougher. I don't know if someone will make a movie on us, but they would have a good script.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Movie
  • Script
  • Tougher

• I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Movie

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