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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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Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Sixth Sense' or 'The Others,' it's more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.
- James Wan
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Every once in a while Disney shocks viewers with some unintentionally extra-Black revolutionary messaging in their movies and TV shows.
- Jason Johnson
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
- Viggo Mortensen
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I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
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Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.
- Nadine Labaki
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Most of the time when you see movies with cults, they're the bad guys. And they're the bad guys from the moment they show up and they just get worse. They're always seen as these crazy nuts, these violent people. They're just seen as villains. To me, when you look at actual cults that's not really the case. They don't look like that.
- Ti West
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The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it.
- Sandra Dee
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For an actor, one doesn't have to be a dancer. But because our Hindi movies have so many song and dance sequences, it is preferred if they are good dancers. It's always advantageous to know dance. But if you don't, it's okay.
- Waheeda Rehman
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I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
- Mel Torme
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
- Dakota Fanning
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In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.
- David Twohy
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There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
- Ben Hecht
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Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.
- Mike Mills
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To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
- Curtis Armstrong
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Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.
- Jon Favreau
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I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
- Jason Mitchell
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I'm a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like 'Rio Bravo' and others I've liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create.
- Steve Sheinkin
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I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.
- Terry Crews
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I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.
- Judge Reinhold
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
- Michael Caine
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I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.
- Dante Ferretti
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I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.
- Richard Linklater
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I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.
- Katie Aselton
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Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Sixth Sense' or 'The Others,' it's more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.
- James Wan
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Every once in a while Disney shocks viewers with some unintentionally extra-Black revolutionary messaging in their movies and TV shows.
- Jason Johnson
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
- Viggo Mortensen
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I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
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Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.
- Nadine Labaki
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Most of the time when you see movies with cults, they're the bad guys. And they're the bad guys from the moment they show up and they just get worse. They're always seen as these crazy nuts, these violent people. They're just seen as villains. To me, when you look at actual cults that's not really the case. They don't look like that.
- Ti West
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The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it.
- Sandra Dee
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For an actor, one doesn't have to be a dancer. But because our Hindi movies have so many song and dance sequences, it is preferred if they are good dancers. It's always advantageous to know dance. But if you don't, it's okay.
- Waheeda Rehman
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I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
- Mel Torme
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
- Dakota Fanning
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In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.
- David Twohy
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There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
- Ben Hecht
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Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.
- Mike Mills
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To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
- Curtis Armstrong
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Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.
- Jon Favreau
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I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
- Jason Mitchell
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I'm a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like 'Rio Bravo' and others I've liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create.
- Steve Sheinkin
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I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.
- Terry Crews
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I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.
- Judge Reinhold
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
- Michael Caine
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I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.
- Dante Ferretti
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I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.
- Richard Linklater
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I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.
- Katie Aselton
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Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Sixth Sense' or 'The Others,' it's more building up the characters and building up the situation as opposed to just opening with a big action set piece.
- James Wan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every once in a while Disney shocks viewers with some unintentionally extra-Black revolutionary messaging in their movies and TV shows.
- Jason Johnson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
- Viggo Mortensen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.
- Nadine Labaki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most of the time when you see movies with cults, they're the bad guys. And they're the bad guys from the moment they show up and they just get worse. They're always seen as these crazy nuts, these violent people. They're just seen as villains. To me, when you look at actual cults that's not really the case. They don't look like that.
- Ti West
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The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it.
- Sandra Dee
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For an actor, one doesn't have to be a dancer. But because our Hindi movies have so many song and dance sequences, it is preferred if they are good dancers. It's always advantageous to know dance. But if you don't, it's okay.
- Waheeda Rehman
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I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
- Samuel L. Jackson
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Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.
- Mel Torme
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
- Dakota Fanning
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In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.
- David Twohy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion.
- Ben Hecht
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.
- Mike Mills
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.
- Curtis Armstrong
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.
- Jon Favreau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
- Jason Mitchell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like 'Rio Bravo' and others I've liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create.
- Steve Sheinkin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.
- Terry Crews
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.
- Judge Reinhold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
- Michael Caine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.
- Dante Ferretti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.
- Richard Linklater
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.
- Katie Aselton
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