Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"We were worried about that, actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't"

Erika Christensen, Actress

"I don't know if it's a romantic comedy, but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing". We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it"

Jason Isaacs, Actor

"So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine"

James Marsters, Actor

"I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me"

Forest Whitaker, Actor

"We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky"

Dean Cain, Actor

"The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is, in a way, the third Gremlins movie"

Joe Dante, Director

"I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it"

Brian De Palma, Director

"I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make"

Mathieu Kassovitz, Director

"I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!"

Emma Stone, Actress

"They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist"

Rick Yune, Actor

"It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it"

Patrick Marber, Writer

"The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity"

Geoffrey Rush, Actor

"In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed"

Terry Zwigoff, Director

"It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot"

Michael Berryman, Actor

"The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject"

Ben Edwards, Entertainer

"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second"

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Director

"Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV"

Debra Messing, Actress

"It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it"

David Spade, Actor

"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT"

Walter Salles, Director

"I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing"

Barbara Hershey, Actress

"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it"

James L. Brooks, Producer

"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn"

Dan Glickman, Politician

"There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground"

Jacques Rivette, Director

"The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general"

Carol Kane, Actress

"I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant"

Donna Mills, Actress

"John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept"

Donald Pleasence, Actor

"Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews"

Barry Pepper, Actor

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally"

Alain Resnais, Director

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets"

Dougray Scott, Actor

"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite"

Crispin Glover, Actor

"All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all"

Albert Finney, Actor

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