Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"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

"This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5"

Bernard Pivot, Journalist

"I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again"

David Heyman, Producer

"Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology"

Avi Arad, Businessman

"Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films"

Beau Bridges, Actor

"I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier"

Estelle Morris, Politician

"What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story"

Chris Farley, Comedian

"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture"

Erich von Stroheim, Actor

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself"

Will Rogers, Actor

"The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or they come close enough, and then I'll say, Well, how about you try it like this? and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think, okay, they've got it"

Rob Reiner, Director

"With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them"

Rob Reiner, Director

"Actors are one family over the entire world"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition"

Bette Davis, Actress

"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life!"

Bette Davis, Actress

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else"

Bette Davis, Actress

"I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"Growing up, I didn't watch movies"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"In Los Angeles, everyone is a star"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child!"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

"I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"I do small cameos here and there, but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality"

Richard Price, Writer

"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing"

Manuel Puig, Author

"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution"

Manuel Puig, Author

"There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

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