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It's not just being able to see a movie. It's the social situations ... the talk around the water cooler, and kids shut of conversations about movie openings.


Dennis Parker

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY [Besides giving viewers a broader look into the moving parts of its shows, the trailers help MTV pos...
BRIAN GRADEN I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something. Rather than asking me for my ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something, ... Rather than asking me for...
QUENTIN TARANTINO Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the hone...
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DAWN TAUBIN I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just ma...
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HANS ZIMMER Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. EAGAN Never judge a book by its movie
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DRAKE ANDERSON Talk about shooting the messenger. And missing the point. This isn't a movie star,
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MARK BOAL Very early on, I decided I didn't want smoking in the movie. It's not really a movie about smoking, ...
IVAN REITMAN Hotel visitors will be able to just walk a block or so to visit the book store or see a movie.
BRIAN STEBBINS Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
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THOMAS NEWMAN The movie really hit home. That was pretty inspirational because a lot of the kids didn't see the mo...
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GARY F EVANS... There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists, unt...
JAKE GREEN We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip-hip-hoo...
JAKE GREEN I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original cast not being a part of i...
ERIN MORAN I don't want to talk about that movie,
SHIRLEY MACLAINE You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so...
WALTER KIRN The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was ...
WYATT RUSSELL I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n...
DANNY STRONG You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star
MARTIN AMIS A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors.
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ALEX ELLIS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
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DANA LONG I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to i...
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JACK BLACK Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they ...
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EVE ARDEN It's just such a different experience to see a cartoon movie of something and then see it in the rea...
BO THORP I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could s...
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LES HARDER They are trying to use humor to get them into the movie theater. By the end of the movie, they want ...
LAURA GREMELSBACKER But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and...
BRAD BIRD I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out ...
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JOHN SINCLAIR Imax has 'The Matrix' in its format. But it is an R-rated movie and we probably wouldn't do that but...
TOBY MENSFORTH I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more ...
SAM MENDES Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.
ALAN ADAMS I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world ri...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. ...
BERNADETTE PETERS I love being on the water, wakesurfing and wakeboarding. I'm not thinking about golf. I'm ju...
DUSTIN JOHNSON This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes.
JASON REITMAN I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's...
TYLER PERRY It's not like every song is about the movie, ... The movie is based on relationships: with your fami...
BIG BOI It's not like every song is about the movie. The movie is based on relationships: with your family, ...
BIG BOI The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishmen...
SIGMUND FREUD What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
NATASHA RICHARDSON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
ALEXANDRE AJA I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's jus...
ALFONSO CUARON Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job y...
THOMAS NEWMAN Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.
FREDDIE HIGHMORE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I feel really proud of the movie and I think its properly subversive and its very human. I think its...
MERYL STREEP The kids all love the movie.
BILL BORDEN It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
NICHOLAS LEA Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgr...
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DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ...
DOROTHY PARKER Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejo...
THEODORE PARKER Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, t...
THEODORE PARKER By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infi...
DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word
DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head,
They stroked my cheek and brow;
And time could heal a hu...
DOROTHY PARKER Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
THEODORE PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ...
DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
DOROTHY PARKER I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.
DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B...
DOROTHY PARKER It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
DOROTHY PARKER He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.
DOROTHY PARKER And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it tru...
DOROTHY PARKER Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground al...
DOROTHY PARKER Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
DOROTHY PARKER Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc...
THEODORE PARKER We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER