Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right"

Judi Dench, Actress

"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic"

Claudia Cardinale, Actress

"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"I think a lot of Magnum was me"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie"

Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor

"I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV"

Sally Kellerman, Actress

"In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say"

John Hench, Artist

"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students"

Milos Forman, Director

"It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience"

Ed Harris, Actor

"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first"

Joel Coen, Director

"I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was"

David Thewlis, Actor

"I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at"

Frederick Wiseman, Director

"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were"

James Franco, Actor

"To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects"

Dario Argento, Director

"In Hitchcock's eyes, the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with"

Bruce Dern, Actor

"I don't see all the movies that come out"

Ray Walston, Actor

"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something"

Karl Urban, Actor

"The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey"

Daniel Day-Lewis, Actor

"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character"

Liev Schreiber, Actor

"It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention"

Julie Christie, Actress

"Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that's been done, then he's not too particular about the details. I think that's why he's happy"

Lawrence Kasdan, Producer

"I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda"

Sanaa Lathan, Actress

"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images of tiny animals, all mixed up"

Julie Walters, Actress

"I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"Well, no, I didn't because I didn't even know the nominations were coming out. I gotta say, it wasn't even on my radar. I hadn't... I hadn't even thought about it"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime"

Michael Bay, Director

"Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique"

David Lean, Director

"The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I find Hollywood really toxic"

Rachel Weisz, Actress

"The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety"

John Schlesinger, Director

"I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended, there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise"

John Schlesinger, Director

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