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“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

School Romance Actors Left Saws High School Doctors Theater Obsessed Movie Aggravation Doctor Zhivago

Author:John Hughes

“It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.”

Different Film Inspiring Filmmaker Movie Just One Chapters Film Directors Movie Director

Author:Robert Altman

“Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.”

People Thinking Character Young Sex Understanding Differences Inspiring Members Essentials Opposites Filmmaker Movie Accurate Portraying

Author:John Hughes

“As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.”

Actors Stars Process Essentials Concerned Movie Filmmaking Worthless

Book:Adventures in the Screen Trade

Source: Adventures in the Screen Trade

“Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!”

Thinking Done Bigs Crime Serious Fishes Excellent Movie Seriousness Overlooked Woody Big Fish Misdemeanors Crimes And Misdemeanors

Author:David Zucker

“Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.”

Thinking Trying Wells Shows Acting Movie

Author:James Stewart

“The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.”

Actors Moral Weather Movie Britain Filmmaking

Author:Hugh Grant

“I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.”

Made Two Film Records Police Radio Movie

Author:Sting

“I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.”

Thinking Made Hours Laughing Serious Brother Tvs Grew Grew Up Inspired Movie Zero Marx Brothers

Author:David Zucker

“I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.”

Ifs Thinking Guy Hours Watches Serious Movie Zero Sterling Cockpit

Author:David Zucker

“I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.”

Thinking Want Kind Different Interest Breaths Movie Different Kinds

Author:David Zucker

“On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.”

Hands Kids Television Hero Calling Presses Movie Vandals

Author:Ken Thompson

“The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.”

People Giving Littles Forget Pieces Tiny Great Things Movie Never Forget

Author:James Stewart

“The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.”

Ifs Children Grows Parent Growing Up Effects Adults Hollywood Movie Recreation Plausible

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.”

Thinking Actors Hours Four Eight Dinner Movie Bob Making Love Begging Dinner And A Movie

Author:Sting

“Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.”

People Ifs Want Giving Should Years Wells Ideas Play Character Problem Film Actors Strong Huge Commitment Direct Communicate Dues Ties Movie Frustration Frustrated Beatty

Author:Alec Baldwin

“I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.”

Men May Actors Given Directors Connected Producers Movie Distinction Stupidest

Author:Ben Hecht

“It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.”

Firsts Persons Real Character Shows Fighting Actors Acting Wonderful Huge Casts Temptation Range Movie Coming Out Real Person

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.”

“If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Real Actors Winning Blood Cry Real Life Movie Necks Awards

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.”

Ifs Littles Political Actors Cities Safety Movie Lighting Epiphany Woody

Author:Gene Wilder

“Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.”

Feels I Can Actors Answers Comfortable Being True Movie Freak Because I Can True To Myself

Author:Halle Berry

“In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.”

People Bigs Political Actors Views Taken Five Crazy Television Point Of View Theatre Opening Paris Movie

Author:Ingrid Bergman

“I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.”

Ifs Stills Care Actors Father Worst Adults Don't Care I Don't Care Movie Categories Stigma Geese Liver Chopped Liver

Author:Jack Valenti

“President Bush said this Iraq situation looks like 'the rerun of a bad movie.' Well sure, there's a Bush in the White House, the economy's going to hell, we're going to war over oil. I've seen this movie, haven't I?”

Wells Looks Said War Actors House President White Situation Economy Hell Havens Iraq Oil Movie White House President Bush Going To War Bad Movies Reruns

Author:Jay Leno

“The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?”

Stills Actors Challenges Consciousness Movie Beaten

Author:Johnny Depp

“The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.”

Actors Nations Islam Movie Plot Offensive Angle Offended Charlie Banned Dubai Religion Of Islam

Author:Jon Stewart

“I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.”

Home Actors Left Heard Married Movie Bob My Boyfriend

Author:Laura Dern

“When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.”

Wanted Actors Boys Movie

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie.”

Firsts Kind Made Guy Actors Movie

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.”

People Actors Emotion Heard Drug Movie Touched

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Mean Dream Body Film Turns Actors Winning Felt Acting My Heart Drug Performances Movie Affected Leap Entertaining Can't Win Good Films Requiem Requiem For A Dream

Author:Liv Tyler

“It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's one thing to get dressed up and do the movie star thing, but I mean, it's my job to be outside of that and it's not like I'm on the outside when they're all watching me. [About the famous car wash scene from One Night at McCool's]”

Ifs Mean Jobs Night Actors Stars Saws Imagine One Thing Car Scene Movie Embarrassing Movie Star One Night Dressed Up Car Wash

Author:Liv Tyler

“I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.”

Knows Want Years Artist Dies Actors Honest Movie Good Movie Really Good Movie

Author:Milla Jovovich

“We call my son's role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy Sean's little independent movie.”

Littles Actors Independent Movie Sean

Author:Patty Duke

“This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.”

Looks Made Actors Honest Movie Baldness

Book:Hooked

Source: Hooked

“When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.”

Giving Whole Stories Young Actors My Own Versions Movie My Sister

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.”

Whole Film Next Actors Stuff Bills Enjoyed Shooting Movie Kill Bill

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.”

Way Giving Feels Actors Realizing Careers Gone Humility Perspective Glad Movie Just One Vogue

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.”

Art Artist Actors Stars Objects Movie Movie Star

Author:Richard Schickel

“I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.”

Art Form Actors Walks Fire Movie Movie Business

Author:Ron Perlman

“Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.”

Looks Home Film Actors Cases Ordinary Criminals Trials Movie Hitchcock

Author:Stephen Gillers

“At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?”

Ends Actors House Missing Shoes Movie Outfits

Author:Tara Reid

“Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]”

Shows Actors Television Movie Reviews Television Shows Referring

Author:Yogi Berra

“I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.”

Actors Movie Repression

Author:Ang Lee

“I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.”

People Thinking Bigs Artist Actors Circumstances Function Movie Big Movie

Author:Ang Lee

“I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.”

Thinking Real Joy Actors Movie Real Joy

Author:Jeff Bridges

“I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.”

Done Actors Decided Movie

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.”

People Way Together Actors Known Movie

Author:Martin Scorsese

“The best movies are simple.”

Actors Simple Movie

Author:Shia LaBeouf

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