Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Class is often invisible in America, in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Most of us do not consciously look at movies"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works, it can entertain, move people and teach us all"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"When I look up at the screen and see myself, I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating, or what clothes they're wearing, or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen!"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl, and it's not you going through it"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more, and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times"

Steven Spielberg, Director

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