Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film"

John Boorman, Director

"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place"

Jacques Delors, Economist

"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible"

Robert Towne, Actor

"I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters"

Dakota Fanning, Actress

"I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"I think that every movie should have some form of a message, and what makes a film good is not just the entertainment factor, but also the values and ideas that it presents"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"It's hard to compare actors from different generations"

Kim Hunter, Actress

"It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"I loved playing Go Go because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories"

Chiaki Kuriyama, Actress

"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty"

Betty Dodson, Educator

"If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film, I'd choose theater"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema"

Lars von Trier, Director

"With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in"

Norman Jewison, Director

"With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"People have perhaps gotten to the point where, for the most part, movies are a just bit of escape"

Neil LaBute, Director

"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school"

Charles S. Dutton, Actor

"As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book, is for someone to believe that you're the character"

Matt LeBlanc, Actor

"I remember when first Stripes and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"What the hell did I do in the 80s? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive"

Giovanni Ribisi, Actor

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