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Crikey, mate. You’re far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
Steve Irwin1962–2006from “Enough Rope With Andrew Denton” on ABC, 2004
- Clever Jabs
His [David Garrick’s] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
- Acting
I was very lucky in my career and I loved it. But I don’t think I was accomplished enough as an actor to be remembered particularly. No, I’d like to be remembered as a decent human being, and a caring one.
Grace Kelly1929–1982Interview with Pierre Salinger, June 22, 1982
- Acting
- Character
We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
- Entertainment
- Television
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 Kubrick1928–1999Kagan, Norman (1989), The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick, New York: Continuum Books.
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999“The Making of Kubrick’s 2001” (1970), edited by Jerome Agel, pg 11. Quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s and Video Viewer’s Companion (1988), p. 403.
- Writing
I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be.
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998On the style of the film Rashomon, as quoted in The Films of Akira Kurosawa (1998) by Donald Richie, 3rd edition, p. 79
- Beauty
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people.
Akira Kurosawa1910–1998Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
- Acting
- Truth & Lies
Sound is half the experience of seeing a film. That’s why I have been bothered by the poor sound reproduction in many theaters and most homes.
George Lucasborn 1944“In the Action With ‘Star Wars’ Sound”, The New York Times (3 May 1992)
We all reflect the world we live in. Even if you make a period film, it will reflect your times.
David Lynch1946–2025Catching the Big Fish (2006), “Darkness”, p. 91
I wrote a novel this year called Shop Girl, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, “If you think you’re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending…that’s going to cost you.”
Steve Martinborn 1945
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 Martinborn 1945
Somone lying back getting a wank absolutely should be something we see in cinema.
Ewan McGregorborn 1971
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
Arthur Miller1915–2005The New York Times (May 9, 1984)
- Acting
- Entertainment
The part never calls for it. And I’ve never ever used that excuse. The box office calls for it.
Helen Mirrenborn 1945Of nudity on stage, as quoted in The Guardian (31 December 1994)
- Acting