Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year"

Ridley Scott, Director

"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be"

Ridley Scott, Director

"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie, but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at"

Ridley Scott, Director

"MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects"

Ridley Scott, Director

"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast"

Ridley Scott, Director

"If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another, where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I do a pretty good job at casting, actually"

Ridley Scott, Director

"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it!"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future, and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it"

Ridley Scott, Director

"And anyway, it's only movies. To stop me, I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head"

Ridley Scott, Director

"A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic!"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"High Noon is a pretty corny movie"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"The bad guys are the best parts"

Brion James, Actor

"Film-making was not at all what I had expected"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"Today, everything has to be made by committee and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films"

Robert Duvall, Actor

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