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Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God. Efren Peñaflorida Jr.

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Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. ― Bill Bulko

On Artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: The art of making real computers act like the ones in movies.

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That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

Cassandra Clare

>Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. Charles Chaplin

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I make movies I want to see. Neil LaBute

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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

John Green

All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. Jean-Luc Godard

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>Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. Pauline Kael

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We are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. They are saying that everyone is brutal, and the heroes must be as brutal as the villains or they turn into fools. There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship... Yet surely, when night after night atrocities are served up to us as entertainment, it's worth some anxiety. … How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?

Pauline Kael

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time. John Travolta

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>Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Charlie Chaplin

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. Samuel Goldwyn

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We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

Stephanie Zacharek

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies. -- Steve Martin

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I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

Karen Marie Moning

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living. Steven Spielberg

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I took a fish head to the movies and I didn't have to pay.

Fish Heads, Saturday Night Live, 1977.

"Roman Polanski makes his own blood.  He's smart -- that's why his movies work."

A brilliant director at "Frank's Place"

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things that always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau

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Buster survives tornados, waterfalls, avalanches of boulders, and falls from great heights, and never pauses to take a bow: He has his eye on his goal. And his movies, seen as a group, are like a sustained act of optimism in the face of adversity; surprising, how without asking, he earns our admiration and tenderness. Because he was funny, because he wore a porkpie hat, Keaton's physical skills are often undervalued … no silent star did more dangerous stunts than Buster Keaton. Instead of using doubles, he himself doubled for his actors, doing their stunts as well as his own.

Roger Ebert

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. George Lucas

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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. Jean-Luc Godard

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The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. Terry Pratchett

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Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. Woody Allen

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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. Oskar Werner

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The clouds in the movies have always seemed more real to me than those on TV. There would be no clouds on Modern Family, that was certain, and I was not sure I could work in a world without clouds.

Andrew Durbin

Everything I learned I learned from the movies. Audrey Hepburn

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When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious. - Interview for London's Sunday Telegraph magazine, November 2007

Heath Ledger (release date for his final major movie role as The Joker in The Dark Knight) (FYI, Ledger unexpectedly died earlier this year and this is his last film

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before? Francis Ford Coppola

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The day after Columbine, I was interviewed... The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. "Wouldn't you say," she asked, "that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?" No, I said, I wouldn't say that... The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song … The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous..."

Roger Ebert

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself. Meryl Streep

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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese

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Films are subjective-what you like, what you don’t like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it’s the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they’ve done, I want that effort there-I want that sincerity. And when you don’t feel it, that’s the only time I feel like I’m wasting my time at the movies. Christopher Nolan

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I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it – if my work has anything it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don’t like that, then tough titty, don’t go and see it, alright? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don’t do homages. Quentin Tarantino

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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. Will Rogers

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Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What's more, they've done it far cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever.

Cory Doctorow (born 17 July 1971

The only way to get rid of fear is to make films about it. Alfred Hitchcock

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The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it. Jodie Foster

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You don't have to be naked to be sexy. Nicole Kidman

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock

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Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these

days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability of people to communicate

with the people they love; Husbands and wives who can't communicate, children

who can't communicate with their parents, and so on.  And the characters in

these books and plays and so on (and in real life, I might add) spend hours

bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate.  I feel that if a person can't

communicate, the very _____least he can do is to shut up!

        -- Tom Lehrer, "That Was the Year that Was"

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"Roman Polanski makes his own blood.  He's smart -- that's why his movies work."

        -- A brilliant director at "Frank's Place"

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It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

        -- Lloyd Kaufman, producer of "Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator"

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But I find the old notions somehow appealing.  Not that I want to go back

to them -- it is outrageous to have some outer authority tell you what is

proper use and abuse of your own faculties, and it is ludicrous to hold

reason higher than body or feeling.  Still there is something true and

profoundly sane about the belief that acts like murder or theft or

assault violate the doer as well as the done to.  We might even, if we

thought this way, have less crime.  The popular view of crime, as far as

I can deduce it from the movies and television, is that it is a breaking

of a rule by someone who thinks they can get away with that; implicitly,

everyone would like to break the rule, but not everyone is arrogant

enough to imagine they can get away with it.  It therefore becomes very

important for the rule upholders to bring such arrogance down.

        -- Marilyn French, "The Woman's Room"

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Why do we have two eyes?  To watch 3-D movies with.

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The PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY is CRYING for an END to BURT REYNOLDS movies!!

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    Then there's the story of the man who avoided reality for 70 years

with drugs, sex, alcohol, fantasy, TV, movies, records, a hobby, lots of

sleep...  And on his 80th birthday died without ever having faced any of

his real problems.

    The man's younger brother, who had been facing reality and all his

problems for 50 years with psychiatrists, nervous breakdowns, tics, tension,

headaches, worry, anxiety and ulcers, was so angry at his brother for having

gotten away scott free that he had a paralyzing stroke.

    The moral to this story is that there ain't no justice that we can

stand to live with.

        -- R. Geis

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David Letterman's "Things we can be proud of as Americans":

    * Greatest number of citizens who have actually boarded a UFO

    * Many newspapers feature "JUMBLE"

    * Hourly motel rates

    * Vast majority of Elvis movies made here

    * Didn't just give up right away during World War II like some

        countries we could mention

    * Goatees & Van Dykes thought to be worn only by weenies

    * Our well-behaved golf professionals

    * Fabulous babes coast to coast

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What with chromodynamics and electroweak too

Our Standardized Model should please even you,

Tho' once you did say that of charm there was none

It took courage to switch as to say Earth moves not Sun.

Yet your state of the union penultimate large

Is the last known haunt of the Fractional Charge,

And as you surf in the hot tub with sourdough roll

Please ponder the passing of your sole Monopole.

Your Olympics were fun, you should bring them all back

For transsexual tennis or Anamalon Track,

But Hollywood movies remain sinfully crude

Whether seen on the telly or Remotely Viewed.

Now fasten your sunbelts, for you've done it once more,

You said it in Leipzig of the thing we adore,

That you've built an incredible crystalline sphere

Whose German attendants spread trembling and fear

Of the death of our theory by Particle Zeta

Which I'll bet is not there say your article, later.

        -- Sheldon Glashow, Physics Today, December, 1984

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It might be worth reflecting that this group was originally created

back in September of 1987 and has exchanged over 1200 messages.  The

original announcement for the group called for an all inclusive

discussion ranging from the writings of Gibson and Vinge and movies</p>

like Bladerunner to real world things like Brands' description of the

work being done at the MIT Media Lab.  It was meant as a haven for

people with vision of this scope.  If you want to create a haven for

people with narrower visions, feel free.  But I feel sad for anyone

who thinks that alt.cyberpunk is such a monstrous group that it is in

dire need of being subdivided.  Heaven help them if they ever start

reading comp.arch or rec.arts.sf-lovers.

        -- Bob Webber

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This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because

the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it

recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated"

the airline industry.  What this means for you, the consumer, is that the

airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever.  They can

show snuff movies.  They can charge for oxygen.  They can hire pilots right

out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.  They can conserve fuel by

ejecting husky passengers over water.  They can ram competing planes in

mid-air.  These innovations have resulted in tremendous cost savings which

have been passed along to you, the consumer, in the form of flights with

amazingly low fares, such as $29.  Of course, certain restrictions do apply,

the main one being that all these flights take you to Newark, and you must

pay thousands of dollars if you want to fly back out.

        -- Dave Barry, "Iowa -- Land of Secure Vacations"

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    A New York City judge ruled that if two women behind you at the

>movies insist on discussing the probable outcome of the film, you have the

right to turn around and blow a Bronx cheer at them.

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David Letterman's "Things we can be proud of as Americans":

    * Greatest number of citizens who have actually boarded a UFO

    * Many newspapers feature "JUMBLE"

    * Hourly motel rates

    * Vast majority of Elvis movies made here

    * Didn't just give up right away during World War II

        like some countries we could mention

    * Goatees & Van Dykes thought to be worn only by weenies

    * Our well-behaved golf professionals

    * Fabulous babes coast to coast

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The Great Movie Posters:

An AVALANCHE of KILLER WORMS!

        -- Squirm (1976)

Most Movies Live Less Than Two Hours.

This Is One of Everlasting Torment!

        -- The New House on the Left (1977)

WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!

        -- Zombie (1980)

It's not human and it's got an axe.

        -- The Prey (1981)

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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

        -- actress Mary Pickford, 1925

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In America today ... we have Woody Allen, whose humor has become so

sophisticated that nobody gets it any more except Mia Farrow.  All those who

think Mia Farrow should go back to making movies where the devil gets her

pregnant and Woody Allen should go back to dressing up as a human sperm,

please raise your hands.  Thank you.

        -- Dave Barry, "Why Humor is Funny"

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I took a fish head to the movies and I didn't have to pay.

        -- Fish Heads, Saturday Night Live, 1977.

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