Film Quotes by Ellen Burstyn

13 Film quotes by Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn’s experience shines through in these 13 brief reflections. Though the collection is modest, each line offers a glimpse into how she perceives the craft of filmmaking and the power of authentic performance.

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To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

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It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

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Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

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Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

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I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to…

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The real work of an actor goes on inside, and I don't think it changes from director to director - I always…

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I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really…

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I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make…

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What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you…

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With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave…

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She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first…

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I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around…

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It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to…

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I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

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Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing…

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I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

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It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

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When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William…

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Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would…

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Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

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The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland…

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I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well…

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I left my career in Hollywood, moved back to New York, and went to Lee Strasberg and studied with him for the rest of…

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There's no doubt that the patriarchy that we live in also controls the movie industry. The heads of the studios are men, and it's…

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