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“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.”

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Author:Greg Kinnear

“Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.”

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Author:Diane Kruger

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”

“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”

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Author:Akira Kurosawa

“I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.”

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Author:Emir Kusturica

“Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?”

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Author:Christian Bale

“If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.”

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Author:Joe Lando

“It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.”

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Author:Jessica Lange

“I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.”

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Author:Jessica Lange

“Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'”

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Author:John Lasseter

“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?"”

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Author:John Lasseter

“Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"”

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Author:Ang Lee

“I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.”

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Author:Antonio Banderas

“I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.”

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Author:Damian Lewis

“How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.”

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Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”

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Author:Jet Li

“I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.”

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Author:Lindsay Lohan

“The secret to film is that it's an illusion.”

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Author:George Lucas

“The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.”

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Author:George Lucas

“This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Movie makers now choose profit over vision.”

Actors Vision Profit Movie Makers

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”

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Author:David Mamet

“The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

“I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.”

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Author:Reba McEntire

“I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

“Everybody's a filmmaker today.”

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Author:John Milius

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