Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film, I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"I never act my characters - I am them"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"Well, my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high"

Ellen Burstyn, Actress

"We chose the actors thru a series of auditions, when we started the show"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze!"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"Well, Tommy Lee Jones is a little bit more intimidating. He's definitely a cowboy. He's from Texas"

Christina Milian, Musician

"Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now"

Christina Milian, Musician

"I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't, it just isn't exciting, but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"A good video can make all the difference"

Brian May, Musician

"I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"Everything makes me nervous - except making films"

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress

"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie"

Sam Mendes, Director

"The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day"

Sam Mendes, Director

"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words"

Sam Mendes, Director

"One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films"

Sam Mendes, Director

"It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly"

Sam Mendes, Director

"I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself"

Sam Mendes, Director

"For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through"

Sam Mendes, Director

"You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters"

John Lasseter, Director

"We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films"

John Lasseter, Director

"Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking"

John Lasseter, Director

"Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium"

John Lasseter, Director

"In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family"

John Lasseter, Director

"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story"

John Lasseter, Director

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