Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right"

Steve Harvey, Actor

"Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny"

Brittany Snow, Actress

"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets"

Spike Lee, Director

"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love"

Spike Lee, Director

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

Olivier Martinez

"The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

Francis Ford Coppola

"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office"

John Cusack, Actor

John Cusack

"I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"The costumes had to serve the choreography"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

Colleen Atwood

"But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

Thomas Haden Church

"I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television"

Bob Greene, Journalist

"Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about"

Steven Spielberg, Director

Steven Spielberg

"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Movies are like magic tricks"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself, as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change"

Richard Kiel, Actor

Richard Kiel

"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

Kathryn Bigelow

"Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults"

John Lasseter, Director

"I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family, and nobody knew my name"

Shirley Jones, Actress

"I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

"The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure"

Nicholas Meyer, Writer

"You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them"

Sissy Spacek, Actress

"I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio"

Ursula Andress, Actress

Ursula Andress

"Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

Juliette Binoche

"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Previously, the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms"

Hector Elizondo, Actor

"I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures"

John Boorman, Director

"The fans make the person a star"

Zac Efron, Actor

Zac Efron

"The entire season, the show had never been aired for more than three weeks. You can't get an audience that way. They would never promo the show for the next week!"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

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