Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"The oil sequence was about two or three days. It was very cold and was snowing"

Jason Statham, Actor

"Look at someone like Edward Norton. A truly phenomenal actor. He's definitely went to school and trained!"

Jason Statham, Actor

"Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies"

Jason Statham, Actor

"A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action"

Jason Statham, Actor

"If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors"

Jason Statham, Actor

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting"

Jason Statham, Actor

"We're trying to make a movie that's interesting"

Jason Statham, Actor

"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene"

Christian Bale, Actor

"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set"

Christian Bale, Actor

"It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am"

Christian Bale, Actor

"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"

Christian Bale, Actor

"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it"

Christian Bale, Actor

"And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them"

Christian Bale, Actor

"When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things"

Christian Bale, Actor

"You're creating a different world, and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not"

Christian Bale, Actor

"We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit"

Christian Bale, Actor

"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures, and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all"

Martin Scorsese, Director

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