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Post by bravomailer on Nov 10, 2019 23:36:42 GMT
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 11, 2019 0:36:54 GMT
"Making a film is like a stagecoach ride in the old west. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip. By the halfway point, you just hope to survive."
"What is a film director? A man who's asked questions about everything. Sometimes he knows the answers."
-- 'Ferrand' (Francois Truffaut) in DAY FOR NIGHT
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 11, 2019 0:42:04 GMT
"Ingrid ... it's only a moo-vie"
Alfred Hitchcock on the set of NOTORIOUS
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 11, 2019 12:56:11 GMT
Rosco: "Lina! We're missing every other word! You've got to talk into the mike!"
Lina: "Well, I can't make love to a bush!"
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The Film Director and the Film's Star in SINGING IN THE RAIN
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 11, 2019 16:54:32 GMT
Numerous 'takes' stories abound in SHANE -- as director George Stevens had a reputation as a meticulous filmmaker:
-- In the scene where Alan Ladd gives a shooting lesson to young Brandon deWilde, the dissatisfied director had it filmed for (wait for it) 119 takes!
-- Jack Palance was a New York actor who was unfamiliar around guns and horses. For the scene where he and Ladd size each other up at their first meeting, Stevens ordered the actor to dismount and to re-mount his horse vvveerrryy slowly. Dismounting was easy enough, but Jack could not master the remounting properly. Finally the exasperated director decided to fix it later in the editing room. He achieved it by just reversing the dismounting shot for an eerie effect.
--In the face-off between Palance and Elisha Cook Jr., 'Torrey' tells 'Wilson' that he is "a low-down, lyin' Yankee". Although Stevens kept directing Palance at this point to smile--an expression of amused contempt at Cook--Palance continued take after take to show too much menace and not enough of a smile mixed in. Finally Stevens took Cook aside and whispered something to him. During the next take, Cook read his line, and added "and a son of a bitch, too!" That did it -- Palance finally produced the smile the director wanted.
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Post by divtal on Nov 11, 2019 17:45:16 GMT
"After childbirth, Singin' in the Rain was the most difficult thing I've ever done."
- Debbie Reynolds
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 11, 2019 18:14:47 GMT
It's the stars themselves who have been failing the fans. People have always been hungry for glamour - they still are. But it takes showmanship and a constant sense of responsibility to hold their interest. A star mustn't allow her public to see her in slacks. She should dress beautifully at all times - I don't mean in a bizarre way. She must live their dreams for them and remain a figure of mystery. Glamour is the most essential part of Hollywood.
Theda Bara
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 12, 2019 4:47:07 GMT
MARATHON MAN -- Laurence Olivier's reaction upon learning that co-star (and method actor) Dustin Hoffman planned to go without sleep for 24 hours in order to achieve his character's haggard and tortured appearance:
"Dear boy -- why don't you just try acting?"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 12, 2019 4:53:56 GMT
" Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man! " Peter O'Toole (Eli Cross) a couple of funny but X rated quotes here on IMDb
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 17, 2019 1:02:30 GMT
"Gone with the Wind" is going to be the biggest flop in history.
Gary Cooper
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Post by Doghouse6 on Nov 17, 2019 1:11:36 GMT
Arriving at Sun Valley, Idaho for her 1933 Christmas holiday, Claudette Colbert told friends, "I just finished the worst picture I ever made."
During production, it was known as Night Bus. It was released two months later as It Happened One Night.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 25, 2019 15:48:58 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 20, 2020 4:07:51 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 20, 2020 4:18:38 GMT
"I have just been fired because nobody wants to see vampire killers any more, or vampires either. Apparently all they want are demented madmen, running around in ski masks hacking up young virgins." Fright Night
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 20, 2020 4:20:23 GMT
"Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?" ED WOOD
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Feb 23, 2020 16:30:10 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 25, 2020 1:24:44 GMT
The Conqueror (1956)
John Wayne regretted playing Temujin so much that he visibly shuddered whenever anyone mentioned the film's name. He once remarked that the moral of the film was "not to make an ass of yourself trying to play parts you're not suited for."
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Post by marshamae on Feb 25, 2020 3:14:16 GMT
Dustin Hoffman once asked legendary actor Sir Laurence Olivier "why is it that we do what we do?" Olivier responded: "The reason we do what we do, dear boy: 'look at me look at me look at me look at me look at me look at me look at me look at me look at me. '"
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Feb 25, 2020 3:32:39 GMT
"Look at any movie theater. What's the audience doing there? Hiding in the dark, trading *their* problems for mine on the screen. Actors... what a job." - Kirk Douglas (as Jack Andrus), in Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Feb 25, 2020 3:36:26 GMT
Anna Scott (Julia Roberts): Rita Hayworth used to say, "They go to bed with Gilda; they wake up with me." William (Hugh Grant): Who's Gilda? Anna Scott: Her most famous part. Men went to bed with the dream; they didn't like it when they would wake up with the reality.
...from Notting Hill (1999)
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