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“I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.”

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Author:Joel Siegel

“Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.”

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Author:Robert Duvall

“On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.”

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Author:Avi Arad

“I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.”

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Author:Paul Haggis

“I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.”

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Author:Freddie Mercury

“Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.”

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Author:Gordon Willis

“If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.”

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Author:Tobey Maguire

“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”

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Author:Abhishek Bachchan

“A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.”

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Author:Sofia Coppola

“There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.”

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Author:Mark Rydell

“But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.”

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Author:Patricia Clarkson

“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?”

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Author:Nick Cave

“Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.”

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Author:Christopher Hampton

“I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.”

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Author:Rutger Hauer

“My good films were independent and my bad films were not.”

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Author:Ralph Bakshi

“I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.”

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Author:Stanley Clarke

“You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.”

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Author:Crispin Glover

“Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.”

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Author:Tim Bevan

“My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.”

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Author:Matthew William Goode