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Quotes about filmmaking reveal the art, struggle, and imagination behind bringing stories to life on screen. They reflect the balance between technical craft and emotional truth that defines the medium. The following collection offers perspectives from those who see cinema not just as entertainment, but as a powerful way of seeing the world.   ◀ Back
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For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.
- Ann Reinking
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The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
- Tom Hanks
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Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
- Michael Madsen
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I love the 'Dark Knight' movies, and 'Dark Knight' and the last one are well over two hours, and I could've sat there for three and a half hours, so if it's good you have some leeway.
- Simon Kinberg
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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
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So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.
- Joe Dante
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There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'
- Rick Moranis
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When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
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Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
- Sydney Pollack
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Growing up I didn't watch movies.
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I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.
- Emily Alyn Lind
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
- Malcolm Mclaren
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I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
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I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
- Hailee Steinfeld
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Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.
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I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.
- Kristen Wiig
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Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
- Bow Wow
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There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.
- Clive Barker
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It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
- Matthew Vaughn
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My favorite part about being a father is playing toys with them, or watching movies with them, really just playing around with them. They bring a lot of joy in to my life, even when I'm having a bad day. Just to come home and see them smiling brings so much joy to my life.
- Derrick Favors
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Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
- Richard Corliss
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It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
- Selma Blair
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When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.
- Sharon Needles
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Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
- Paul Sorvino
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For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.
- Ann Reinking
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The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
- Tom Hanks
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Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
- Michael Madsen
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I love the 'Dark Knight' movies, and 'Dark Knight' and the last one are well over two hours, and I could've sat there for three and a half hours, so if it's good you have some leeway.
- Simon Kinberg
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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
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So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.
- Joe Dante
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There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'
- Rick Moranis
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When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
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Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
- Sydney Pollack
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Growing up I didn't watch movies.
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I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.
- Emily Alyn Lind
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
- Malcolm Mclaren
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I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
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I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
- Hailee Steinfeld
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Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.
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I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.
- Kristen Wiig
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Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
- Bow Wow
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There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.
- Clive Barker
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It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
- Matthew Vaughn
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My favorite part about being a father is playing toys with them, or watching movies with them, really just playing around with them. They bring a lot of joy in to my life, even when I'm having a bad day. Just to come home and see them smiling brings so much joy to my life.
- Derrick Favors
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Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
- Richard Corliss
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It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
- Selma Blair
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When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.
- Sharon Needles
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Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
- Paul Sorvino
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For theater I am like a long-distance runner. For movies I am a sprinter! Same playing field, different approach.
- Ann Reinking
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The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
- Tom Hanks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
- Michael Madsen
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I love the 'Dark Knight' movies, and 'Dark Knight' and the last one are well over two hours, and I could've sat there for three and a half hours, so if it's good you have some leeway.
- Simon Kinberg
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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
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So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.
- Joe Dante
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There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'
- Rick Moranis
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When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
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Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
- Sydney Pollack
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Growing up I didn't watch movies.
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I actually like older horror movies more than newer ones because when I'm watching newer ones, like 'Chucky' or 'Saw' or whatever, I'm like, 'Come on, really, this isn't even good, all it is is blood and knives.' I like when it has a story line, you know? When it's actually a movie.
- Emily Alyn Lind
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
- Malcolm Mclaren
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I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
- Hailee Steinfeld
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.
- Kristen Wiig
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Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.
- Bow Wow
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There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see these movies don't read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.
- Clive Barker
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It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
- Matthew Vaughn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My favorite part about being a father is playing toys with them, or watching movies with them, really just playing around with them. They bring a lot of joy in to my life, even when I'm having a bad day. Just to come home and see them smiling brings so much joy to my life.
- Derrick Favors
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bad movies: they can be tatty classics of crazed ineptitude, like Edward D. Wood's 'Glen or Glenda' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space,' or big-budget misfires like the 1987 'Ishtar,' a would-be comedy that sent Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman on a Hope-Crosby Road to Dystopia.
- Richard Corliss
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It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
- Selma Blair
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.
- Sharon Needles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.
- Paul Sorvino
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