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"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
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes"
Ken Burns, Director
"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head"
Ken Burns, Director
"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films"
Ken Burns, Director
"As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress
"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
"An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie"
Christopher Walken, Actor
"Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women"
Pedro Almodovar, Director
"After the enormous success of All About My Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception"
Pedro Almodovar, Director
"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter?"
Carter Burwell, Composer
"I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities"
Carter Burwell, Composer
"I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale"
Harrison Ford, Actor
"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens, it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it, because nobody has done that before, that's new territory"
Harrison Ford, Actor
"Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business, was because there was Midnight Cowboy"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable"
Carter Burwell, Composer
"I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy"
Carter Burwell, Composer
"My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies"
Christopher Walken, Actor
"Because if I don't know my lines, I really don't know what I'm doing"
Christopher Walken, Actor
"By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"I wouldn't say that I'm very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That's really easy to draw from when I'm acting; that's probably the biggest similarity"
James Lafferty, Actor
"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening, and it makes these movies like video games, and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion"
Harrison Ford, Actor
"Obviously, an actor draws on his own experience"
Christopher Walken, Actor
"No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual"
Christopher Walken, Actor
"I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies"
Christopher Walken, Actor
"And I think that when I play these villains, maybe what is different is that the audience sees me play these, and they know that that's Chris, and he's having fun, and he knows that, and he knows that, and you know that, and everybody knows that"
Christopher Walken, Actor
"I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me"
James Lafferty, Actor
"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better, not worse"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"I love, more than anything, looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it"
Jodie Foster, Actress
"My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher"
Courtney Love, Musician
"Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together"
Courtney Love, Musician
"If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space"
Brad Bird, Cartoonist
"I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar"
Brad Bird, Cartoonist
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