Movie Quotes

• My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Great
  • Family
  • She

• Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Dark

• I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Life
  • Work
  • Business

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Small
  • Walking
  • Survival

• The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • People
  • Sports
  • Stars

• My first movie was totally improvised.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Movie
  • First
  • Totally

• Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Think
  • Three
  • Opinions

• Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.

  

  Cicely Tyson
  • Movie

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• 'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • People
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

  

  James Wan
  • Movie

• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Study

• It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Action
  • Doing
  • Project

• I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

  

  Jill Clayburgh
  • Character
  • Movie

• I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Good
  • Business
  • Attention

• At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Up
  • Safety
  • Disney

• Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Thing
  • Details
  • Only

• What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • You
  • Funny
  • Creating

• If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Sailing

• To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Art
  • Me
  • Building

• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Star

• I did a movie called 'The Hole' with this kid Nathan Gamble, so when I'm old and wrinkly, he could play me. He's awesome.

  

  Chris Massoglia
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Deep

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