Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves"

David Strathairn, Actor

"When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films"

Geena Davis, Actress

"Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress"

Emma Watson, Actress

"The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across, and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"When you make a film, you usually make a film about an idea"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing"

Shannyn Sossamon, Musician

"Being an actor myself, I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character, I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else"

Richard Masur, Actor

"I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you"

Saffron Burrows, Actress

"Actually, I'm not that involved in the fan site"

David Prowse, Actor

"Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully, it can make it more of an interesting product"

Mark Roberts, Actor

"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine"

Joan Bennett, Actress

"Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb"

Sandra Oh, Actress

"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no"

Josie Maran, Model

"Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"It doesn't need to be a No. 1 show, it just needs to be good"

Vincent D'Onofrio, Actor

"I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe"

Kieran Culkin, Actor

"He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together"

Saffron Burrows, Actress

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"With a movie you're creating from the beginning, this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes, very rarely by accident, a movie becomes a work of art"

Sydney Pollack, Director

"Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two"

Richard Widmark, Actor

"Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures"

Richard Widmark, Actor

"The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"Lord of the Rings was just so much enjoyment. It was over about the space of a year that I was filming. It's one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done, so emotional"

Sean Bean, Actor

"The more you understand me, the less characters I can play"

Skeet Ulrich, Actor

"The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking"

Richard King, Director

"I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with"

Diane Kruger, Model

"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives"

Calista Flockhart, Actress

"Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first, but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines, and it felt right"

Derek Luke, Actor

"They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

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