Quotes for All
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. Evelyn Keyes
American Pie’ was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as ‘Like Mike’ and ‘New York Minute’ with the Olsen twins Eugene Levy
I think about the period of, like, the ’70s and early ’80s where nobody had money to make big movies and there was no CGI or anything like that and people had to get super creative. And then, you know, when you’ve got somebody who can paint you any picture on a computer and you … Read more
Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul. Emmanuelle Seigner
Why should you have to atone for making big movies? Emily Blunt
My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb. Emily Blunt
I’ve realized that what you think of when you make a ‘big movie,’ if it’s actually a green screen movie, it’s like doing independent New York theater because you don’t have any backgrounds or props. So it’s kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus \$100 million. Emile Hirsch
Even though I’m an actor, even though I know a little bit about film, I very much view things as an audience member. For me, whether it’s TV, film, theater, whatever, it’s a big movie, a small movie, whatever it is, I look for the truth in it. I look for the honesty. I just … Read more
Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star. Eli Roth
In Hollywood, I’m lucky, I only do big movies like ‘Blade.’ It’s much more comfortable: you have a trailer. Donnie Yen