Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films, and his theme park, and his characters, and his joy in entertaining"

John Lasseter, Director

"I believe in the nobility of entertaining people, and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives"

John Lasseter, Director

"I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away"

Edward Norton, Actor

"For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it, you almost decide to do the whole movie off a line or two. You almost do it for the fun of getting to say a line or two like that. I don't have any specific plans, you know. I mean, if Seth Rogen calls with a great buddy pic, I'll be there"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it"

Edward Norton, Actor

"The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions"

Edward Norton, Actor

"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots"

David O. Selznick, Producer

"The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"I am a fan of wuxia"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies"

Tim Burton, Director

"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in"

Nicholas Meyer, Writer

"Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands"

Lawrence Taylor, Athlete

"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real"

Tim Burton, Director

"Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes"

John Ford, Dramatist

"The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, "You're so Southern California". It was a surprise to me"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"What Tim does is he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects"

Ursula Andress, Actress

"They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... If it's too loud, you're too old"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious"

Esther Williams, Actress

"That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"For eight years, I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"Every casting director I've met is a woman"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know, start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better"

Edward Norton, Actor

"People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"People recognize me. I have scripts and auditions. And I meet great people"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I'd be quite excited to play somebody British"

Claire Forlani, Actress

"Wuxia is a fantasy world, exists in everyone's mind"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Now, a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible, and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship"

Shirley Jones, Actress

"I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule"

David O. Selznick, Producer

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