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Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the ...

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If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriousl...

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Really good films don't diminish anything, they don't close things off. On the contrary, they open u...

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Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure me...

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Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...

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If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...

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I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched ...

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids l...

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...I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that ...

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Anita LoosGentlemen Prefer Blondes

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Everything I learned I learned from themovies.

Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can ...

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Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...

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‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happen...

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In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author...

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You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your f...

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Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what the...

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Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...

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Charles BukowskiThe Last Night of the Earth Poems

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g...

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Charles BukowskiThe Last Night of the Earth Poems

It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on ...

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Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is tha...

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It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...

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The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if...

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Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as put...

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Morning is the best time to see movies.

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Inte...

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Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say ...

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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated co...

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some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watc...

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That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They giv...

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The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it th...

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There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the direc...

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Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at the...

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That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".

I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so ...

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In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven, mai...

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't reall...

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You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yea...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

One of the most interesting accomplishments of the film community, it seems to me, is that it has ma...

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E. B. WhiteOne Man's Meat

The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, ...

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Today I found an old friend. –Ed Burns via Purple Violets

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' wa...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. They did it four times. 'Faster,' said Ang [Lee]....

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Our first point of discussion is the hunt. (...) My idea is to start the film with an image of the v...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

We've hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'H...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Eliza...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Child...

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I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesti...

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Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You'...

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Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get...

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I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn no...

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The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always starte...

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We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won’t be Joan...

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I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.

Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what...

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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of ...

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...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more picture...

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Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice abou...

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How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been ...

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Henry MillerThe Cosmological Eye

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything...

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It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...

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But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not...

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I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smel...

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I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town si...

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Jean-Dominique BaubyThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

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I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.