Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

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"The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain, and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in"

Wim Wenders, Director

"In this age of consumerism, film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Historically, the director has been the key creative element in a film, and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Casting is 65 percent of directing"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes"

Laura Dern, Actress

"As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking"

Craig McCracken, Artist

"The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts"

Sam Mendes, Director

"One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this"

Sam Mendes, Director

"Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it"

John Lasseter, Director

"I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?"

John Lasseter, Director

"I love playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's because I'm intrigued by them"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"This is my first wuxia movie, and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Going up the walls, doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

"There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen"

Sherry Stringfield, Actress

"Piracy has destroyed the domestic market"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"

Ralph Bakshi, Director

"If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"Hollywood has lost touch with their audience, a long time ago"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked, and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room, and how her body takes place of everything"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not"

Zoe Saldana, Actor

"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them"

Phillip Noyce, Director

"Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it"

John Huston, Director

"I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself"

Frank Langella, Actor

"My character was kidnapped by the Terminator, and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production"

Claire Danes, Actress

"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak, but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be"

Sharon Stone, Actress

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