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“I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.”

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Author:Andy Milonakis

“I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.”

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Author:Joe Wright

“I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.”

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Author:Roger Corman

“Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.”

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Author:John Cassavetes

“I enjoy doing martial arts films, but I like the straight stuff, too. I'd like to go back and do some Shakespeare, and maybe knock out a play or two. It's all about keeping balance.”

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Author:Thomas Ian Griffith

“A lot of people don't realize, when you are acting in a martial arts film, you're not just performing martial arts. You're not just performing martial arts. You're actually acting as much as any other actor.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Im a big fan of martial arts films, novels and radio programs.”

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Author:Wong Kar-wai

“Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.”

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Author:Christopher Bollen

“When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. It's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. These films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. The audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. They're just looking to be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.”

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Author:Brett Ratner

“The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.”

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Author:John Waters

“When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.”

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Author:Rain

“I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?”

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Author:Wong Kar-wai

“My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.”

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Author:Mary Harron

“It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.”

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Author:Bipasha Basu

“I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I loved the idea of the fact that the way, like I said, they colored outside of the lines. You know, there was rules that they didn't have to follow. And you got -you got - you could get more of a sensational thrill, all right, with some of these exploitation movies or art films, or you could get something you wouldn't see at the normal cineplex.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.”

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Author:Pam Grier

“I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.”

“When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.”

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Author:Mike Myers

“Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.”

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Author:Ron Perlman

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

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Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.”

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Author:Halle Berry

“There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.”

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Author:Francine Pascal

“Kids are always infatuated with the action in Martial Arts Films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the Arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.”

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Author:Thomas Ian Griffith

“I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.”

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Author:Molly Haskell

“I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.”

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Author:Chris Daughtry

“Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.”

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Author:Jeffrey Deitch

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