#movies

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#good #mental #movies #often #physical

Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD. ↗

— Jerry Bruckheimer

#i #love #movies #sure #yeah

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. ↗

— Alex Winter

#fun #innocent #movies #pretensions #were

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#art #cannot #great #great art #interested

Along the way [Mozart] got married; fathered seven children (two of whom survived into adulthood); performed as a pianist; violinist; and conductor; maintained a successful teaching studio; wrote thousands of letters; traveled widely; attended the theater religiously; played cards, billiards, and bocce; and rode horseback for exercise. Not bad for someone portrayed as a giggling idiot in the movies. ↗

— Robert Greenberg

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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#actors #directors #movies #beauty

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#difference #life #make #movies #script

Wouldst like to con a glimmer with me this early black?’, which he [Cab Calloway] helpfully explains as ‘the proper way to ask a young lady to go to the movies’. It should be noted here, that if the object of your affections replies ‘Kill me’, they are not requesting to be euthanatised and you should not actually murder them. Kill me is merely the Cab Calloway way of saying ‘Show me a good time’ and is the best response you could have hoped for. Jive was rather confusing in this way. ↗

— Mark Forsyth

#hepster #jive #movies

In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different. ↗

— Peter Biskind

#filmmaking #movies

Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media (like the phone) has now expanded to include a third option: two-way media that operates on a scale from private to public. ↗

— Clay Shirky

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