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It’s an abominable place. If there was an Old Testamental God, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some really good restaurants would go up as well.
Terry Gilliamborn 1940About Hollywood. As quoted in the New York Times article Terry Gilliam’s Feel-Good Endings (14 August 2005)
- Clever Jabs
[Hollywood films] tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don’t have to think about it. … The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.
Terry Gilliamborn 1940Interview to TCM comparing the work of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (2009)
- Thinking
She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022On his first wife Anna Karina, as quoted in “An Exile in Paradise” by Richard Brody, The New Yorker (20 November 2000)
- Marriage
Actresses can only play women. I’m an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldbergborn 1955Speaking on The Today Show on January 13, 1986; as quoted in Whoopi Goldberg on Stage and Screen (2013) by Lisa Pertillar Brevard, p. 18.
- Acting
- Women
You have to be fierce as an actor. It’s not the actor’s job to be interesting; that’s the script’s job. It’s our job to be truthful and brave.
Mia Gothborn 1993“Mia Goth”. Interview Magazine. 20 September 2015.
- Acting
Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824), ch. XVI
- Acting
- Character
I always love it when people write me and say “I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.”
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993How to be Lovely‎ (2005)
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Hepburn’s failing health. (January 1993)
- Entertainment
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
Werner Herzogborn 1942Herzog on Herzog (2002)
- Clever Jabs
By dint of declaration the so-called Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants.
Werner Herzogborn 1942Minnesota declaration (1999)
- Truth & Lies
If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don’t want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Werner Herzogborn 1942Herzog on Herzog (2002), Said while making Fitzcarraldo
- Motivation & Goals
As an actor, I’m thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
Charlton Heston1923–2008Video farewell (2002)
- Acting
- Life & Death
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Quoted by Dana Ullman in The One-minute (or So) Healer: 500 Simple Ways to Heal Yourself Naturally p. 43
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Picture Parade, BBC (5 July 1960)
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Newsweek (11 June 1956).
- Comedy