Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America, media from people who came from the entertainment world"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent, and it always assumed that you had an intellect"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"I love being a part of Aqua Teen"

Dana Snyder, Actor

"So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned"

Julie Bowen, Actress

"I aim for a lifetime full of movies"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book, I got really emotional and I started crying"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways, I was nothing but a vessel"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy, and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"I directed a movie and now I'm going to do the editing"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"The title of the movie is open to interpretation"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"The movies that are made more thoughtfully, or made, or with more ambition, often get just get drowned out by the noise"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc., were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"Well, the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation"

Satyajit Ray, Director

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