Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie"

Ursula Andress, Actress

"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep, and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I like actors that are good with pantomime, and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude, more than through their dialogue"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I never made a good movie"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Well, I think effects are tools"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I was directing before I knew it was called that"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I was part of a group that had a cinema club, so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen"

Esther Williams, Actress

"Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

"It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you"

Esther Williams, Actress

"I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times"

Edward Norton, Actor

"I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films"

Edward Norton, Actor

"Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing"

Edward Norton, Actor

"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone, and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good"

Chevy Chase, Comedian

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