Film And Movie Quotes – Read What Celebrities Have To Say About Their Industry
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“This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.”
– Pauline Kael
“The words “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.”
– Pauline Kael
“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
“When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.”
– Pedro Almodovar
“I don’t know of any other industry, except the movie business, that has so many stars. Every lawyer thinks he’s special.”
– Peter Morrison
“Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.”
– Pink
“I steal from every movie ever made.”
– Quentin Tarantino
“The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.”
– Quentin Tarantino
“Its idea of ‘production value’ is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.”
– Raymond Chandler
“I’m definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I’ve experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it’s good to realize that you’re always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.”
– Reese Witherspoon
“Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.”
– Richard King
“A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.”
– Richard Schickel
“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.”
– Robert Bresson
“Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.”
– Robert Brustein
“The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.”
– Robert Doisneau
“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.”
– Roger Ebert
“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”
– Roger Ebert
“Most of us do not consciously look at movies.”
– Roger Ebert
“Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.”
– Roland Emmerich
“I’ll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it’s right, is the coolest art form ever invented.”
– Ron Perlman
“To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership – not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.”
– Ronald Reagan
“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.”
– Samuel Goldwyn
“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”
– Samuel Goldwyn
“Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.”
– Samuel Goldwyn
“Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ‘bus movie.’”
– Sandra Bullock
“What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.”
– Shana Alexander
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
– Shirley Chisholm
“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.”
– Stanley Kubrick
“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
“Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.”
– Stephen Gillers
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