Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"But in fact, if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"These films, however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot"

Judy Garland, Actress

"I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them"

Judy Garland, Actress

"I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun"

Jet Li, Actor

"I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence or formula"

Jet Li, Actor

"Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies, and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong"

Jet Li, Actor

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman, they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Hollywood is kind of a bad world"

Mia Maestro, Actress

"The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"I was not a trained actor"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know"

Redd Foxx, Actor

"I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China"

Jet Li, Actor

"You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to talk about love"

Jet Li, Actor

"I couldn't sleep one night, and I was sitting in my office, and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope?"

Jet Li, Actor

"At the end of Requiem, all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"When I go to movies, I generally want to be taken to another world"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I've got one idea I want to do for a film, and you know, I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces"

Norman Wisdom, Comedian

"I try to respect the rules of the silent movies, and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good, and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"When you look at golf films before us, they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I never enjoyed working in a film"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"There are no small parts, only small actors"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying, it's just about feeling. You create your own story"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

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