Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in"

Christian Bale, Actor

"So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'Oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor"

Christian Bale, Actor

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I have never acted; He has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries"

Frank Capra, Director

"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I think if you do something effectively, whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play, movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through"

Martin Scorsese, Director

"Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess"

John Cusack, Actor

"I don't believe in having body doubles for a film"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted"

John Cusack, Actor

"Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis"

John Cusack, Actor

"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel"

Ken Burns, Director

"I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful, and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize"

Oliver Stone, Director

"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing"

Oliver Stone, Director

"I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats"

John Cleese, Actor

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"The Thin Man was a good break because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie"

John Frankenheimer, Director

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