Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?"

Richard Donner, Director

"I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin"

James Gandolfini, Actor

"It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself"

Scott Baio, Actor

"Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money"

Samuel L. Jackson, Actor

"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded"

Jesse Eisenberg, Actor

"There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie, but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have"

Joe Mantegna, Actor

"In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, what performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands"

Richard Attenborough, Actor

"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing"

John Lithgow, Actor

"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny"

Hugh Grant, Actor

"It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie"

David Thewlis, Actor

"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them"

Joel Coen, Director

"Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played"

Harry Hamlin, Actor

"You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing, and length are all aspects of choice"

Frederick Wiseman, Director

"I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis"

Val Guest, Director

"Every actor wants to direct"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra"

Roland Joffe, Director

"I want to make films that are honest, that look at people with empathy, and that allow an audience to see someone else's life with dignity"

Chloé Zhao, Director

"No, I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film"

Richard Farnsworth, Actor

"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise"

Stephen Hopkins, Writer

"Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want"

Joel Gretsch, Actor

"Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation"

Clint Walker, Actor

"I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words"

Dennis Farina, Actor

"Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say, oh, yeah, we want that. This is a great film, but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper"

Nia Long, Actress

"I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck"

Joshua Leonard, Actor

"I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting"

Claudia Schiffer, Model

"I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film"

Jackie DeShannon, Musician

"My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical"

Barbet Schroeder, Director

"Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film"

Donal Logue, Actor

"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool"

Natasha Henstridge, Actress

"Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing"

Fay Wray, Actress

"In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it"

Brooke Burke, Model

"Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience"

Dennis Muren, Artist

"I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important"

Anna Faris, Actress

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