Quotes and Sayings About Movie
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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The motion picture is the people's Art.
-- Adela Rogers St. JohnsSource : Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
-- Agnes Varda -
I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
-- Agnes Varda -
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The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
-- Alex Winter -
The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
-- Alex Winter -
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
-- Alex Winter -
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
-- Alex Winter -
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I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
-- Alex Winter -
Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
-- Alex Winter -
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.
-- Alison Bechdel -
It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.
-- Barbara DemingSource : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
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License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.
-- Bette Davis -
The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.
-- Bette Midler -
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The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
-- Bette Midler -
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
-- Billy Wilder -
It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
-- Blair Underwood -
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
-- Boris Karloff -
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
-- Bruce Sterling -
I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
-- Bruce Vilanch -
You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.
-- Bubba SparxxxSource : "Capt. Chesley Sullenberger". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2012.
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My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
-- Burt ReynoldsSource : Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur (2015). “But Enough About Me: A Memoir”, p.87, Penguin
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
-- Carla Gugino