Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"When I grow up, I still want to be a director"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"Movies are not scripts - Movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look"

Nicolas Roeg, Director

"I heard that the same thing occurred in a scene in Alien, where the creature pops out of the chest of a crewman. The other actors didn't know what was to happen; the director wanted to get true surprise"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s"

Wim Wenders, Director

"You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more"

Marvin Minsky, Scientist

"One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it"

Julie Taymor, Director

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie"

Wim Wenders, Director

"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it"

Richard Gere, Actor

"I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while, sometimes, not always, but sometimes, their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"To be a good actor, you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new"

Nicolas Cage, Actor

"Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!"

Estella Warren, Model

"The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well, Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons"

Christina Milian, Musician

"I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination"

Christina Milian, Musician

"You think about taking audiences on a journey"

Sam Mendes, Director

"When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor"

Lee Grant, Actress

"I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz"

Christopher Parker, Actor

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