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Hot Rod
rank | Fri Jan 07 13:08:56 2011 A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. ~ Stanley Kubrick |
milton bradley
rank | Sat Jan 08 01:46:07 2011 Once again quoting people whose views, if uttered by anyone else on UP, you spew your lame 1920's buster keaton flames interspersed with swear words over? Are you trying to get into the guiness record book for laughable ignorance and hypocrisy? |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Jan 08 13:59:29 2011 Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. ~ Mary Pickford |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Jan 09 15:34:30 2011 Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.' ~ Sandra Bullock |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Jan 10 15:01:27 2011 A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. ~ Alfred Hitchcock |
Cock Vomit
rank | Mon Jan 10 23:56:03 2011 Freddie Lee Cobb: You can't blame a nigger for being a nigger, no more than you can blame a dog for being a dog. But a whore like you, co-mingling with mongrels, betraying your own. That makes you worse than a nigger. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll leave you tied up here naked. First, it'll just be bugs eating at ya. One day, maybe two. That sun's gonna be cooking you. And animals... they're gonna pick on your stink. They'll come looking for something to eat. |
tumbleweed
rank | Tue Jan 11 07:18:51 2011 Conan! What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women |
Hot Rod
rank | Tue Jan 11 13:00:51 2011 You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. ~ Steve Martin |
Cthulhu
rank | Wed Jan 12 02:32:22 2011 'Conan! What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women' I prefer the original version of the quote. â??The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters.â?? -Genghis Khan |
tumbleweed
rank | Wed Jan 12 02:56:43 2011 i didn't know it was a stolen line :/ Genghis' version loses some of the humor though... and increases the creepiness |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Jan 12 15:26:26 2011 Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. ~ Walt Disney |
Firestorm Phoenix
rank | Wed Jan 12 15:47:53 2011 You have to realize that someday you will die. Until you know that, you are useless. - Fight Club |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Jan 13 14:21:21 2011 I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. ~ Francis Ford Coppola |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Jan 15 15:00:16 2011 A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. ~ Samuel Goldwyn |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Jan 16 22:18:11 2011 Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. ~ Tim Burton |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Jan 17 15:46:07 2011 Everything makes me nervous - except making films. ~ Elizabeth Taylor |
Hot Rod
rank | Tue Jan 18 11:29:23 2011 I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar. ~ Jessica Alba |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Jan 19 15:42:22 2011 I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another. ~ Dick Cavett |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Jan 20 12:51:45 2011 Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. ~ Mel Brooks |
Hot Rod
rank | Fri Jan 21 11:58:24 2011 No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. ~ Truman Capote |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Jan 22 17:45:38 2011 Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. ~ Pauline Kael |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Jan 23 09:59:36 2011 I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. ~ Jennifer Aniston |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Jan 24 11:25:26 2011 Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. ~ Billy Wilder |
Hot Rod
rank | Tue Jan 25 11:35:14 2011 "Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood, and you'll find the real tinsel underneath." ~ Oscar Levant |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Jan 26 14:00:57 2011 The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ~ Alfred Hitchcock |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Jan 27 13:45:37 2011 Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. ~ Frank Capra |
Hot Rod
rank | Fri Jan 28 11:31:52 2011 I kept finding myself getting closer and closer to the TV," she says. "I started kissing the television and looking back at my dad saying, 'That's my dad.' My dad would say, 'No, I'm your father -- that can be your TV dad. ~ Paula Abdul, Age 4 Watching Gene Kelly in 'Singing In The Rain'. (She decided then she would be an entertainer.) |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Jan 29 11:35:12 2011 But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am. ~ Eddie Bracken |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Jan 30 10:30:36 2011 My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Jan 31 16:19:28 2011 It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? ~ Bud Abbott |
Hot Rod
rank | Tue Feb 01 12:23:50 2011 Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously. ~ Joan Allen |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Feb 02 12:25:41 2011 Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. ~ Samuel Goldwyn |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Feb 03 11:15:27 2011 Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. ~ Bette Davis |
Hot Rod
rank | Fri Feb 04 12:14:57 2011 Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. ~ Martin Scorsese |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Feb 05 14:23:16 2011 Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play. ~ Ann Miller |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Feb 06 10:40:53 2011 I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art. ~ Diane Lane |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Feb 07 14:25:23 2011 I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. ~ Jennifer Aniston |
Hot Rod
rank | Tue Feb 08 16:09:08 2011 I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. ~ Denzel Washington |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Feb 09 14:20:08 2011 I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. ~ John Hughes |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Feb 10 14:53:42 2011 Film lovers are sick people. ~ Francois Truffaut |
Hot Rod
rank | Fri Feb 11 13:29:07 2011 All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides. ~ Dame Judith Anderson, AC , DBE |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Feb 12 14:19:12 2011 Every great film should seem new every time you see it. ~ Roger Ebert |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Feb 13 14:29:36 2011 Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years. ~ Joseph Barbera |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Feb 14 13:39:56 2011 I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ~ Oskar Werner |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Feb 16 15:58:53 2011 Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. ~ Bud Abbott |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Feb 17 15:23:25 2011 I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. ~ Broderick Crawford |
Hot Rod
rank | Fri Feb 18 18:10:22 2011 I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. ~ Karen Allen |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Feb 19 14:43:50 2011 The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that. ~ Danny Aiello |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Feb 20 14:43:12 2011 I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. ~ Eddie Albert |
The Children
rank | Mon Feb 21 15:49:18 2011 Kromm, Ive nevah praed to you befoah. I havuh no tungue fur it. Noone, not evan you, will remembah if we were guud men or bad. Why we fooght or why we died. Aall that matters is that two stoodz against manieh. Thats what important. Valor pleases you Kromm. So grant me one rekweast. Grant me revenge. And if you do not listen, than to HELL with you! - Barbarian |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Feb 21 16:46:31 2011 Be yourself. The world worships the original. ~ Ingrid Bergman |
Cthulhu
rank | Tue Feb 22 05:25:47 2011 'It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete assholes. It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference! ' `Mark Renton 'Trainspotting' |
The Children
rank | Tue Feb 22 12:21:36 2011 What is good in life? To krush your enemieez, see them drieven before you and to hear the lamentation of the women. - Barbarian |
Hot Rod
rank | Tue Feb 22 13:57:21 2011 Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. ~ Nicolas Roeg |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Feb 23 14:52:49 2011 A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. ~ Desi Arnaz |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Feb 24 03:00:23 2011 Baby Blivet spamming again. |
Cthulhu
rank | Thu Feb 24 07:45:21 2011 Aren't you a little old to refer to yourself as a baby blivet HR? |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Feb 24 15:03:38 2011 Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures. ~ Richard Widmark |
Hot Rod
rank | Fri Feb 25 13:44:51 2011 The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western. ~ Armand Assante |
Paramount
rank | Fri Feb 25 19:47:00 2011 "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" - Luke Skylwalker (after Darth Vader told him he is his father) |
Hot Rod
rank | Sat Feb 26 15:42:43 2011 The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. ~ Will Rogers |
Hot Rod
rank | Sun Feb 27 15:35:56 2011 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi. ~ Jerry Orbach |
Hot Rod
rank | Mon Feb 28 15:24:04 2011 And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted. ~ Richard Attenborough |
Hot Rod
rank | Tue Mar 01 17:05:53 2011 They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years. ~ Jane Russell |
Hot Rod
rank | Wed Mar 02 16:57:01 2011 Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself. ~ Natalie Portman |
Hot Rod
rank | Thu Mar 03 14:50:39 2011 Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. ~ Colin Firth |
Paramount
rank | Sat Mar 05 22:55:42 2011 - Where is my FUCKING money?! I CUTCHA FUCKIN' LIVA OUT! - Okey okey, it's in the box. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmH97tlM8l4 Great movie. |
Paramount
rank | Sat Mar 05 23:42:24 2011 "Let's be careful out there" - Michael Conrad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2QApwtE8zQ |
gravitas
rank | Sat Mar 12 17:15:15 2011 Call it, friendo |
Isaksson
rank | Tue Mar 29 17:42:21 2011 If i give you 1000000 dollars, can i sleep with your wife? Ett oandstandigt forslag. I don't know the english title of this american movie... Its with Robert Redford... |
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