Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I still have my talent to produce and direct"

Marc Wallice, Actor

"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. I'll be the crazy old movie guy"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I steal from every movie ever made"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it"

Darren Aronofsky, Director

"I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great, like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre!"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and it's silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything"

Ridley Scott, Director

"I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Cast is everything"

Ridley Scott, Director

"If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't"

Brion James, Actor

"I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say, so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that"

Brion James, Actor

"My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job"

Brion James, Actor

"Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they're going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer"

Spike Lee, Director

"Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith"

Spike Lee, Director

"I have never acted in one, and I'm not at all interested to do so either"

Ville Valo, Musician

"It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies"

Jason Statham, Actor

"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that"

Christian Bale, Actor

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