 As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. Author: A. C. Benson
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| I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film. Author: Abraham Zapruder
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| If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. Author: Adam Duritz
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| I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that. Author: Adam Sandler
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| Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy. Author: Adrienne Barbeau
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| When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. Author: Agnes Martin
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| I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously. Author: Aishwarya Rai
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| I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday! Author: Akshay Kumar
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| The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets. Author: Al McGuire
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| I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films. Author: Alain Resnais
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| Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make. Author: Alain Resnais
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| My films are about embarrassment. Author: Alan Bennett
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| Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film. Author: Alan Cumming
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| To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. Author: Alan Moore
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| The films that I do tend to polarise people's views. Author: Alan Parker
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| You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make. Author: Alan Rudolph
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| My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played. Author: Alanna Ubach
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| It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. Author: Albert Einstein
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| One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. Author: Albert Einstein
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| Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero. Author: Alex North
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| Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt. Author: Alex North
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| I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. Author: Alex North
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| The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s. Author: Alex North
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| I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't. Author: Alex Winter
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| Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture. Author: Alex Winter
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| We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore. Author: Alexander Kluge
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| But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. Author: Alexander Payne
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| Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. Author: Alexander Payne
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| There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness. Author: Alexander Volkov
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| I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season. Author: Alfre Woodard
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| In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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| In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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| The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. Author: Alfred Hitchcock
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| I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. Author: Alice Hoffman
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| Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. Author: Alice Meynell
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| When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part. Author: Amy Irving
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| I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity. Author: Amy Weber
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| There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity. Author: Amy Weber
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| The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Author: Anais Nin
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| Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day. Author: Andre Braugher
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| Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. Author: Andrea Thompson
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| Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are. Author: Andy Garcia
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| My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre. Author: Andy Garcia
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| If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. Author: Andy Warhol
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| Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is. Author: Ang Lee
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| Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody. Author: Angela Lansbury
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| I am a mystery to myself. Author: Angelina Grimke
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| I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that. Author: Angelina Jolie
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| If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up. Author: Angelina Jolie
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| Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. Author: Ani DiFranco
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| 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. Author: Anjelica Huston
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| In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then. Author: Ann Macbeth
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| Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. Author: Ann Macbeth
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| The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films. Author: Ann Macbeth
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| You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. Author: Ann Patchett
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| Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle. Author: Anne Dudley
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| I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Author: Anne Lamott
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| Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. Author: Anne Perry
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| It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away. Author: Anne Tyler
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| Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?" Author: Annette Bening
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| There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them. Author: Annie Leibovitz
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| Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. Author: Anthony Anderson
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| It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! Author: Anthony de Mello
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| A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. Author: Anthony Hecht
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| I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films. Author: Anthony Michael Hall
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| I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films. Author: Anthony Minghella
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| Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream. Author: Antoine Fuqua
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| I like the opportunity to make films. Author: Antoine Fuqua
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| I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire. Author: Antoine Fuqua
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| It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. Author: Antoine Rivarol
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| I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. Author: Antonia Fraser
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| I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work. Author: Armand Assante
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| It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself. Author: Armistead Maupin
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| I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| 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. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. Author: Arthur Erickson
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| Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. Author: Arthur Machen
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| It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen. Author: Atom Egoyan
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| Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. Author: Atom Egoyan
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| Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival. Author: Austin Peck
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| I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes. Author: Ayumi Hamasaki
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| Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. Author: Babatunde Olatunji
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| English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different. Author: Bai Ling
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| I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. Author: Balthus
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| On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap. Author: Barbara Cook
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| I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects. Author: Barbara Hershey
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