Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there's not much else to do"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Well, first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I've made three musical movies, which is pretty good, considering that not many are made, but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Hollywood's got its own particular environment"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I am the luckiest filmmaker I know"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I love European movies, and I kind of grew up on European films"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"I usually get recognized for Spaceballs"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle"

Marlon Brando, Actor

"I've been on shows that go for shock value"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"To play a bag woman is brave for any woman"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"I am a movie star"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"

Frank Capra, Director

"I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"When videotape came, so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go, but you can go rent them and see them on TV"

Christopher Walken, Actor

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