Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"It's a music video, but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video, and I told her, whenever you get to jump to the big screen, I'd love to come with you, and she honored that"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department"

Ann Sothern, Actress

"We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess"

Cleo Moore, Actress

"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates"

Werner Herzog, Director

"Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there"

Laurence Fishburne, Actor

"As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally"

Roger Corman, Producer

"Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent"

Gael Garcia Bernal, Actor

"Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class"

Mark Poster, Writer

"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real"

Jan de Bont, Director

"I have lots of favourite memories, but I can't say that I have a favourite film"

John Hurt, Actor

"Lynch is an ordinary, small-town guy and he just sees strange things in people"

Jack Nance, Actor

"Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them"

Ang Lee, Director

"When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene: what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it"

Ethan Coen, Director

"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom"

Nicole Sullivan, Actress

"In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience"

Minnie Driver, Actress

"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant"

Jackie Weaver, Actress

"Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you"

Samantha Morton, Actress

"Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize"

Melinda Clarke, Actress

"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways"

Roland Emmerich, Director

"I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California"

Thuy Trang, Actress

"On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries"

Lukas Haas, Actor

"Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances"

Rick Baker, Inventor

"I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you"

Joshua Jackson, Actor

"The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels"

William Friedkin, Director

"For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world"

Peter Chernin, Businessman

"I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"By the time we got to MGM and Lions Gate, the movie was done, there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care"

William H. Macy, Actor

"Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of"

Sylvia Kristel, Actress

"One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to"

Peter Bogdanovich, Director

"St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show"

Mark Harmon, Actor

"You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie"

David Zucker, Director

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that there's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do"

Michael Apted, Director

"They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation"

Michael York, Actor

"I think suspense is a big thing"

Gina Philips, Actress

"I only make movies I want to go see"

Jerry Bruckheimer, Producer

"It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing"

Jenna Elfman, Actress

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