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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.”

People Want Giving Shows Wanted Film Desire Movie

Author:Agnes Varda

“Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.”

Economics Hollywood Sacred Movie Cows Sacred Cows

Author:Gena Rowlands

“[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.”

Youth Hollywood Movie Filmmaking Cardinals Cardinal Rules

Author:Lynda Obst

“My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).”

People Interesting Crazy Stupid New York Hollywood Movie Los Angeles Immoral

Author:Lynda Obst

“My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.”

Has Beens Made Reason Goal Becoming Losing Hollywood Sight Beast Movie Insidious Becoming One

Author:Lynda Obst

“Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.”

Problem Walks Ego Hollywood Movie Walks Of Life Movie Business Egomaniacs Megalomaniacs Ego Problem

Author:Lynda Obst

“with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?”

Stills Rooms Movie Sequels Movie Business

Book:Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business

Source: Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business

“I loved The Wind in the Willows. ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.”

Should Character Literature Nice Imagine Wind Movie Testament New Testament Walt Mickey Children's Literature Wind In The Willows

Author:Tasha Tudor

“movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.”

Taken Century Myth Mood Movie

Book:Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

Source: Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television

“Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.”

Shows Film Arguing Favors Movie

Author:Jennifer Stone

“I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.”

Thinking Important Film Actors Watches Important Things Movie

Author:Clive Owen

“I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.”

I Can Done Remember Fighting Actors Havens Involved Movie

Author:Clive Owen

“Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.”

Made Problem Fantasy Audience Ready Hollywood Movie Productive Daydreaming

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.”

Has Beens Two Funny Sea Type Kissing South Movie Sarcasm Exposed Bangs American Movie

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“great villains make great movies.”

Movie Villain

Author:Staton Rabin

“The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.”

Men World Has Beens Hands Given Media Television Illusion Accounts Claims Movie Divides Reporters Fifth Second Hand

Author:Josephine Herbst

“I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.”

Wells Actors Dollars Billions Movie Bragging Brag

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.”

Ifs World Care Stars Player Summer Soccer Movie Vacation Spain Nobody Cares Soccer Player Ibiza Movies And Music

Author:Xavi

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.”

Actors Stones Movie

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.”

People Two Hours Dark Millions Saint Filmmaker Movie Pope

Author:Frank Capra

“All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.”

People Ifs Art Would Be Film Industry Capitalism Profit Pursuit Producers Movie Capitalist Enchantment Pursuit Of Money

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.”

Ifs World Jobs Stars Inspiring This World Filmmaker Movie Movie Star Gigs

Author:Tom Hanks

“At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'”

People Thinking Ends Funny Actors Hey Movie My Time The End Of The Day Good Movie

Author:Tom Hanks

“The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.”

Matter Actors Numbers Pay Attention Audience Truth Is Office Connections Boxes Pay Attention Movie Box Office

Author:Tom Hanks

“Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.”

Has Beens Feelings Dream Actors Lost Acting Sun Happened California Remembered Movie Coast Broadway Motion Pictures Hasty

Author:Mae West

“I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.”

Looks Actors Acting Mirrors Victim Experts Movie Doormat

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.”

Play Turns Actors Acting Brother Movie Apartment Murderer Housewife Slim

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.”

World Past Violence Products Hollywood Movie Flavor Once Upon A Time Hyperbole

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!”

“oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy”

Ifs Knows Littles Doe Made Mother Differences Picks Movie Sheer Gravy

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.”

Shows Three Fashion Revolution Paris Movie Three Things Backdrop Fashion Show Love Fashion

Book:A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

Source: A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

“The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.”

Stars Millions Sorrow Movie Movie Star

Author:Mason Cooley

“It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.”

Years Made Lasts Movie Contracts Through The Years

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.”

Stars Movie

Author:Darryl F. Zanuck

“If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.”

Ifs Helping Reality Past Suffering Practice Friends Safe Mindfulness Okay Dear Ghost Movie Unreal Dear Friend

Author:Nhat Hanh

“For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”

“Cinema is like dream.”

Dream Cinema Movie

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.”

Firsts Weapons Hollywood Movie Delay Indecision

Author:Shirley Temple

“So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind. Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge special effects and futuristic scenarios. Also a lot of chatter, drama and suspense. Is like to go to the movies for free, every day. The CCTV technology used is the SSM-X45. Whose initials stand for: Sit down, Shut up and Meditate (X45 is just to sound more hi-tech)”

Mind Used Sound Hours Technology Meditation Special Effects Huge Drama Confusion Suspense Discussion Movie Tape Shut Up Initials Scenarios Chatter Special Effects Futuristic

Author:Marcelo Goianira

“Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.”

Men Happens Beautiful Turns Actors Lines Chance Watches Stupid Theory Monsters Silly Movie Beautiful Women

Author:Salma Hayek

“I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.”

Actors Movie Editing

Author:Salma Hayek

“For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.”

Firsts Book Character Home Actors Cry Emotional Involved Movie Wraps So Sad

Author:Salma Hayek

“To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.”

Actors Process Audience Recognition Movie Filmmaking

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.”

World Way Trying Found House Sound Fiction Fantasy Records Creating Illusion Science Fiction Movie Filmmaking Pulling Motor Elevators Cement

Author:Ben Burtt

“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.”

Actors Movie

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”

Funny Film Stars Ambition Married Hollywood Average Cute Movie Italian Englishmen Boyfriend Film Stars Hollywood Films Hollywood Stars

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'”

“The only safe thing is to take a chance.”

Chance Inspiring Safe Filmmaker Movie Take A Chance Movie Director

Author:Elaine May

“I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”

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