Film & Theater Quotes

99 quotes from Film & Theater thinkers

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Howard Hawks

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I make Westerns. I'm a director. I make pictures.

John Ford

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If there's one thing I hate, it's a good script.

Billy Wilder

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I make films for people, not for critics.

Frank Capra

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The public is always right. If it is not right, it is because it has not been given the right information.

Cecil B. DeMille

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The task I'm trying to achieve is above all to make you see.

D.W. Griffith

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Art is always conflict, according to its basic principle.

Sergei Eisenstein

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

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I steal from every single movie ever made.

Quentin Tarantino

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The only way to learn is to do. The only way to do is to be. And the only way to be is to be yourself.

Francis Ford Coppola

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I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

Steven Spielberg

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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese

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The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of dreams, a place of magic, a place of illusion.

John Gielgud

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The most beautiful thing in the world is the world itself.

Eleonora Duse

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The art of acting is the art of expressing the soul through the body.

Sarah Bernhardt

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I'm an actress, not a star. Stars are in the sky. I'm a human being.

Helen Mirren

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I'm a professional actor. I'm not a celebrity. I'm not a personality. I'm an actor. I'm a craftsman. I'm a worker.

Ian McKellen

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I don't want to be told I'm too old to do something. I want to be able to do it, and then if I can't, I'll know.

Judi Dench

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I'm like a rhinoceros. I just keep charging.

Anthony Hopkins

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If you want to be a good actor, you have to be able to play anything.

Morgan Freeman

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