Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic, but they feel less real"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"Well, I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it"

Kyle Chandler, Actor

"There's an electrical thing about movies"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"Filming is repetition and many takes"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know"

Oliver Stone, Director

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down"

Frances McDormand, Actress

"On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking"

Kid Rock, Musician

"There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"In any film there's always a historical implication"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history"

Oliver Stone, Director

"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something"

John Cusack, Actor

"I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut"

John Cusack, Actor

"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out, but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over"

Sean Connery, Actor

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess"

Melissa Leo, Actress

"I love acting, but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes"

Melissa Leo, Actress

"Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand, and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like"

John Cusack, Actor

"I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that"

John Cusack, Actor

"Coming Home had been made before, and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations"

Oliver Stone, Director

"Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys!"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests"

Max von Sydow, Actor

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