America in all its splendor

sausage making

A Major Award

 

so you want to be an actor?

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Scorsese origins

$2.3 billion movie theatre

nitwit

"Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it."

- Billy Madison, 1995

we make our future

John Connor:

                The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

on loyalty

"When you side with a man, you stay with him. And if you can't do that, you're like some animal. You're finished. We're finished. All of us."
- William Holden

action

"Be in love with the process not the results. The process will generate the results."
- Barry Jenkins

The Best Man

William Russell:

... as Bertrand Russell said, people in a democracy tend to think they have less to fear from a stupid man than an intelligent one.

general

"The time for honouring yourself will soon be at an end."
- Russel Crowe as Maximus in Gladiator

sociopath, no psychopath

Colonel Jessep

... I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong Marine!

shadow and form

Edward Hopper's "House by the Railroad" inspired the Bates' house in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."

"No one can ride a camel; it's impossible. All that you can do is find a beast whose discomfort you can tolerate."
- Omar Sharif

how to make a movie

"Start with an earthquake and build it up from there."
- Cecil B. DeMille

Nelson Biederman IV

What are we suppose to do? ...

John Lyshitski

You know how someone might describe a situation as unpleasant or confining as being like a prison? This is what they were referring to.

Will Arnett and Dax Shepard in Let's Go To Prison

"No good movie is long enough; no bad movie is short enough."
- Roger Ebert

"Movies touch us more than any other art form."
- Roger Ebert

on "Do the Right Thing"

"It took me ten days to write the screenplay."
- Spike Lee