Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen"

Guillermo del Toro, Director

"The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions"

Elia Kazan, Director

"Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying"

Bill Condon, Director

"The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Language is much closer to film than painting is"

Sergei Eisenstein, Director

"I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money"

Charles S. Dutton, Actor

"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut"

Terence Stamp, Actor

"Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off"

Joe Pantoliano, Actor

"It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still, you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie, and then I didn't see him again until the premiere"

Rebecca Romijn, Actress

"I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast"

Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady

"I have a thing against reality shows. I think they are so fake. I think they are produced before they begin. I think people know where they're going, what they're going to say, what the situation is. These things just don't happen and you know that"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and if you hang around long enough, you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring"

Steven Soderbergh, Director

"Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile"

Edward Zwick, Director

"It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

"Cinema is a language. It can be used to elevate, to illuminate, to interrogate. It can also be used to erase. I'm interested in using it to reveal"

Ava DuVernay, Director

"Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different"

Bo Derek, Actress

"In Evita, I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help, but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie, and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"The Full Monty, ah, it's superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England"

Mark Roberts, Actor

"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"I used to love Woody Allen, but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Animation had been done before, but stories were never told"

Marc Davis, Artist

"I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director"

Famke Janssen, Actress

"In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie'"

Brad Holland, Illustrator

"The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy, a director of category B, not a big director"

Claudia Cardinale, Actress

"Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas"

Gabriel Macht, Actor

"Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think"

George Martin, Producer

"A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something"

Tim Reid, Actor

"You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much"

Jason Mewes, Actor

"If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly"

Julie Delpy, Actress

"I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie"

Noah Hathaway, Actor

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