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  • Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

    The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.
  • I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  • I write and film history; I don't make it.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

    Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.16, Vintage
  • I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.

  • I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

    "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.
  • I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

    Dracula ch. 2 (1897)
  • I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

    The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)
  • A boy's best friend is his mother.

    Movie   Family   Mom  
    "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.
  • You're gonna need a bigger boat.

    "Fictional character: Chief Martin Brody". "Jaws", www.imdb.com. June 20, 1975.
  • There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.

    Teacher   School   Ideas  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

    "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.
  • When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

  • I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls.

    Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.
  • Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

  • It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

  • May the Force be with you.

    Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)
  • The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

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