Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential"

William Goldman, Novelist

"It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"When Bound was released, Boys Don't Cry wasn't out yet. Therefore it was very taboo to play a lesbian. I loved the part, because girls never get to play the typical guy parts"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice"

Brion James, Actor

"Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"

Brion James, Actor

"The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss"

Brion James, Actor

"Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting"

Brion James, Actor

"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies"

Brion James, Actor

"Larry Kasdan is a great director"

Brion James, Actor

"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood"

Brion James, Actor

"I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy"

Brion James, Actor

"I could talk about Blade Runner forever"

Brion James, Actor

"You never know what show is going to change your life"

Brion James, Actor

"I was just a cheap little starlet, hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive"

Spike Lee, Director

"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful"

Spike Lee, Director

"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten"

Spike Lee, Director

"I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker"

Spike Lee, Director

"There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic"

Spike Lee, Director

"Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do"

Spike Lee, Director

"A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there"

Spike Lee, Director

"The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead"

Sting, Musician

"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment"

Jason Statham, Actor

"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make"

Christian Bale, Actor

"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On"

Sting, Musician

"I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

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