#films

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#age #american #american movies #class #culture

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#classic #films #focus #hollywood #hollywood films

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#failure #films #men #seem #struggle

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years. ↗

— Lena Horne

#belongs #brave #clubs #exceptions #few

I've been number two in films for donkey's years. ↗

— Trevor Howard

#donkey #films #i #number #two

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#fall #films #going #know #like

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films. ↗

— John Hurt

#big #every #films #finance #get

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream. ↗

— William Hurt

#films #get #i #i do #independent

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#bankers #everyday #everyday life #farmers #father

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#black-and-white #films #frank #frank sinatra #guys