Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about"

Patti Smith, Musician

"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies, and my friends work hard, and we're trying to make people laugh, and I'm very proud of that"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"Cinema reflects culture, and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves, otherwise it gets caught"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"For me, the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"I try to distinguish my characters from each other"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California, where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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