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"'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable."

"'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable."

Timothy Dalton, Welsh Actor

Film, Glory, Opera, Wind

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"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."

"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."

Helen Mirren, British Actress

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"I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years."

"I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years."

Bryan Singer, American Director

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"Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos."

"Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos."

Ray Harryhausen, American Director

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"Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage."

"Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage."

Samantha Mathis, American Actress

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"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

Julie Taymor, American Director

Film, Opera, Self, Years

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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."

"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."

Mathieu Kassovitz, French Director

Film, France, Months, Police

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"I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck."

"I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck."

Marisa Tomei, American Actress

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"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head."

"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head."

Daryl Gates, American Public Servant

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"A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now."

"A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now."

Kenneth More, British Actor

Film, Now, Years

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"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."

"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."

Elmer Bernstein, American Composer

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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."

"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."

Marcel Carne, French Director

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"We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent."

"We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent."

Bob Livingston, American Politician

Film, Rest, World

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"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result."

"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result."

Jonny Greenwood, English Musician

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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

Andre Benjamin, American Musician

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"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."

"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."

Beatrice Dalle, French Actress

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"I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it."

"I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it."

James Caviezel, American Actor

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"Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore."

"Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore."

Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian Director

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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 written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

Henry Miller, American Author

Film, Cinema, Art, Failure, Critique

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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Film, Critique, Flaws, Talent, Contrast

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"Looper is another great film."

"Looper is another great film."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Film, Truth, Power, Life

12

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Film, Suspense, Truth, Art

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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Film, Impression, Media, Truth

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