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I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' ~ Noah Baumbach
Citizen Kane quotes by Noah Baumbach
The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is.
It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end."
That's how much better it is. ~ Warren Ellis
Citizen Kane quotes by Warren Ellis
I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really. ~ Patrick Macnee
Citizen Kane quotes by Patrick Macnee
She had an old friend from the vaudeville days named Buck Mack who lived with her. Buck had been part of a vaudeville team called Miller & Mack and had been an extra in Citizen Kane. In modern terms, he was a personal assistant: he ran the house, kept everything running smoothly, and watched over her. At first, Buck regarded me as an interloper, but it wasn't long before he saw that Barbara and I genuinely loved each other, and he and I became good friends. Because of the age difference, neither of us wanted to have our relationship in the papers, and with the help of Helen Ferguson, her publicist and one of her best friends, we kept it quiet. There were only a few people who knew about us. Nancy Sinatra Sr. was one of them, because she and Barbara were close friends. I didn't tell anybody at Fox about our affair, although Harry Brand might have known, if only because Harry knew everything. Likewise, I always assumed that Darryl Zanuck knew, although he never said a word about it to me. That might have been because Darryl and Barbara had something of a history, a bad one: Barbara told me that Darryl had chased her around his office years earlier, and I got the distinct impression that she hadn't appreciated the exercise. ~ Robert J. Wagner
Citizen Kane quotes by Robert J. Wagner
It was time for me to go that Thursday night. We'd just watched Citizen Kane--a throwback to my Cinema 190 class at USC--and it was late. And though a soft, cozy bed in one of the guest rooms sounded much more appealing than driving all the way home, I'd never really wanted to get into the habit of sleeping over at Marlboro Man's house. It was the Pretend-I'm-a-Proper-Country-Club-Girl in me, mixed with a healthy dose of fear that Marlboro Man's mother or grandmother would drop by early in the morning to bring Marlboro Man some warm muffins or some such thing and see my car parked in the driveway. Or even worse, come inside the house, and then I'd have to wrestle with whether or not to volunteer that "I slept in a guest room! I slept in a guest room!", which only would have made me look more guilty. Who needs that? I'd told myself, and vowed never to put myself in that predicament. ~ Ree Drummond
Citizen Kane quotes by Ree Drummond
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. ~ Pauline Kael
Citizen Kane quotes by Pauline Kael
Not long before, I had stayed up late with my mother and watched Citizen Kane, and I was very taken with the idea that a person might notice in passing some bewitching stranger and remember her for the rest of his life. Someday I too might be like the old man in the movie, leaning back in my chair with a far-off look in my eyes, and saying: You know, that was sixty years ago, and I never saw that girl with the red hair again, but you know what? Not a month has gone by in all that time when I haven't thought of her. ~ Donna Tartt
Citizen Kane quotes by Donna Tartt
You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff. ~ Gene Siskel
Citizen Kane quotes by Gene Siskel
Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don't think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we'd seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them
it's very interesting. It still holds up, and it's still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air. ~ Martin Scorsese
Citizen Kane quotes by Martin Scorsese
Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly. ~ Zach Braff
Citizen Kane quotes by Zach Braff
We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know? ~ Dana Carvey
Citizen Kane quotes by Dana Carvey
I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting. ~ William Friedkin
Citizen Kane quotes by William Friedkin
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. ~ Orson Scott Card
Citizen Kane quotes by Orson Scott Card
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. ~ John Cusack
Citizen Kane quotes by John Cusack
I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.' ~ Christian McKay
Citizen Kane quotes by Christian McKay
Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them. ~ Joseph Cotten
Citizen Kane quotes by Joseph Cotten
When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing. ~ Hugh Hefner
Citizen Kane quotes by Hugh Hefner
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. ~ Claire Danes
Citizen Kane quotes by Claire Danes
I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane". ~ Barbra Streisand
Citizen Kane quotes by Barbra Streisand
For instance, I love the movie Casablanca. Who doesn't? No matter how many egghead critics declare Citizen Kane to be the greatest American movie, we all know it's Casablanca in fact. ~ Andrew Klavan
Citizen Kane quotes by Andrew Klavan
Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero. ~ Clive Barker
Citizen Kane quotes by Clive Barker
Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.' ~ Elizabeth McGovern
Citizen Kane quotes by Elizabeth McGovern
She sometimes wished she was more thick-skinned, so that she could see nothing, feel nothing. ~ Kavita Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Kavita Kane
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen. ~ Rudolf Virchow
Citizen Kane quotes by Rudolf Virchow
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here. ~ Tariq Ali
Citizen Kane quotes by Tariq Ali
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen. ~ Mo Ibrahim
Citizen Kane quotes by Mo Ibrahim
The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master ... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others ... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government
not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Citizen Kane quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait. ~ Christian Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Christian Kane
As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn't necessarily translate to the social. ~ Astra Taylor
Citizen Kane quotes by Astra Taylor
It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them. ~ Bob Ehrlich
Citizen Kane quotes by Bob Ehrlich
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. ~ Rosa Parks
Citizen Kane quotes by Rosa Parks
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age ~ Plato
Citizen Kane quotes by Plato
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships.
The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man. ~ John Ralston Saul
Citizen Kane quotes by John Ralston Saul
You and Tom must have made a good match," he said. "What are you
doing? Is this the way you initiate new tutors? By stabbing them in the shoe? ~ Anyta Sunday
Citizen Kane quotes by Anyta Sunday
Hatch opens
Stark light
the rupture begins ~ Sarah Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Sarah Kane
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. ~ Jesse Ventura
Citizen Kane quotes by Jesse Ventura
People might be making too much of me maturing and growing; I'm still the same person. I still like to joke around and have fun in the locker room and on the road trips. I still get into arguments with Jonathan because we both have strong opinions, and we're both so comfortable with our relationship that we can argue and still have a healthy friendship. ~ Patrick Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Patrick Kane
When had being an addict gotten so fucking hard? So exhausting? It had been so easy for so long; she had a steady supply, she kept to herself, nobody bothered her. Now she was constantly up to her ears in intrigue and complications, being torn in every direction but her own, all thanks to her need for those pills ~ Stacia Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Stacia Kane
Acting is pretty much my whole life. ~ Carol Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Carol Kane
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself. ~ Jan Struther
Citizen Kane quotes by Jan Struther
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Citizen Kane quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt.
Where did the camel come from, you ask? I may have mentioned Walt's collection of amulets. Two of them summoned disgusting camels. I'd
met them before, so I was less than excited when a ton of dromedary flesh flew across my line of sight, plowed into the sphinx, and collapsed on top
of it. The sphinx growled in outrage as it tried to free itself. The camel grunted and farted.
"Hindenburg," I said. Only one camel could possibly fart that badly. "Walt, why in the world - ?"
"Sorry!" he yelled. "Wrong amulet!"
The technique worked, at any rate. The camel wasn't much of a fighter, but it was quite heavy and clumsy. The criosphinx snarled and clawed
at the floor, trying unsuccessfully to push the camel off; but Hindenburg just splayed his legs, made alarmed honking sounds, and let loose gas.
I moved to Walt's side and tried to get my bearings. ~ Rick Riordan
Citizen Kane quotes by Rick Riordan
What's that map?" I asked.
"Spells of Coming Forth by Day," he said. "Don't worry. It's a good copy."
I looked at Carter for a translation.
"Most people call it The Book of the Dead," he told me. "Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife."
The captain hummed indignantly. "I am no idiot, Lord Kane."
"No, no, I just meant ... " Carter's voice faltered. "Uh, what is that? ~ Rick Riordan
Citizen Kane quotes by Rick Riordan
Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today. ~ Paul Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Paul Kane
It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you are a Jew from morning to night. We don't even have to think about it, just as a Dutch citizen doesn't spend his whole day thinking about the fact that he is a Dutch citizen. It's a given. ~ Tommy Lapid
Citizen Kane quotes by Tommy Lapid
Unfortunately, the mysterious gold does not come from the moon, but from the pocket of a blacksmith, or a nail-smith, or a cartwright, or a farrier, or a laborer, or a shipwright; in a word, from John Q. Citizen, who gives it now without receiving a grain more of iron than when he was paying ten francs. Thus, we can see at a glance that this very much alters the state of the case; for it is very evident that Mr. Protectionist's profit is compensated by John Q. Citizen's loss, and all that Mr. Protectionist can do with the pot of gold, for the encouragement of national labor, John Q. Citizen might have done himself. The stone has only been thrown upon one part of the lake, because the law has prevented it from being thrown upon another. ~ Frederic Bastiat
Citizen Kane quotes by Frederic Bastiat
Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House. ~ Muhammad Ali
Citizen Kane quotes by Muhammad Ali
I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen. ~ Benigno Aquino III
Citizen Kane quotes by Benigno Aquino III
New possibilities for a more active democracy are beginning to emerge in the information age. Effective citizen action is possible if citizens develop the abilities to gain access to information of all kinds and the skills to put such information to effective use. ~ Harry Boyte
Citizen Kane quotes by Harry Boyte
The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous. ~ Richard Mitchell
Citizen Kane quotes by Richard Mitchell
Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn't mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step. ~ David Harsanyi
Citizen Kane quotes by David Harsanyi
Terrible grabbed her as she rounded the corner, his lips curved in what would have been a grin on a normal person, which he wasn't. On his scarred, shadowed face, the smile made him look like he was getting ready to bite. ~ Stacia Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Stacia Kane
TEIRESIAS:
I tell you, king, this man, this murderer
(whom you have long declared you are in search of,
indicting him in threatening proclamation
as murderer of Laius)- he is here.
In name he is a stranger among citizens
but soon he will be shown to be a citizen
true native Theban, and he'll have no joy
of the discovery: blindness for sight
and beggary for riches his exchange,
he shall go journeying to a foreign country
tapping his way before him with a stick.
He shall be proved father and brother both
to his own children in his house; to her
that gave him birth, a son and husband both;
a fellow sower in his father's bed
with that same father that he murdered.
Go within, reckon that out, and if you find me
mistaken, say I have no skill in prophecy. ~ Sophocles
Citizen Kane quotes by Sophocles
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night. ~ Patrick Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Patrick Kane
I'm sorry, I really did want to talk to you." His free hand went to her face and cupped her cheek.
Something tightened pleasantly in her belly. "Just talk?" she breathed.
He nodded, but used their clasped hands to pull her closer to him.
She raised her head and met his eyes, a storm of blue and green. She smirked. "That's a shame. ~ Aria Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Aria Kane
A citizen is no greater than his ideology,
no cleverer than his intellect,
no nobler than his aspirations,
and no stronger than his opinions.

A nation is no greater than its consciousness,
no richer than its heritage,
no grander than its potential,
and no loftier than its luminaries.

The world is no greater than its leaders,
no smarter than its teachers,
no better than its preachers,
and no higher than its philosophers. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Citizen Kane quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
A citizen of the kingdom of love cannot exist without love ~ Sunday Adelaja
Citizen Kane quotes by Sunday Adelaja
I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine. ~ Victor Pinchuk
Citizen Kane quotes by Victor Pinchuk
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation. ~ Susan B. Anthony
Citizen Kane quotes by Susan B. Anthony
Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity ~ Charles Hugh Smith
Citizen Kane quotes by Charles Hugh Smith
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Citizen Kane quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator. ~ Bob Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Bob Kane
I ain't ... Don't know how to say it up right. Never
Fuck, Chess. Thought you was dead once before, you recall? Never felt so bad in my life, not ever. Then on the other day, thought you was gone and just ... I can't do it, bein without you. ~ Stacia Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Stacia Kane
And then all of a sudden, you're doing jumping jacks, you're happy, because Kane can talk. The Big Red Retard can finally speak. ~ Dwayne Johnson
Citizen Kane quotes by Dwayne Johnson
Are you lonely?" Why had he asked that? Or, better question, why hadn't he considered that before right this minute? Kane always stayed so busy with Autumn and Robert. But they were new to town, no real friends yet, and Kane hadn't found a church like the one they had at home. Damn, why hadn't he thought about this before? ~ Kindle Alexander
Citizen Kane quotes by Kindle Alexander
Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman. ~ Robert David Steele
Citizen Kane quotes by Robert David Steele
Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon. ~ Michael Connelly
Citizen Kane quotes by Michael Connelly
I don't believe this. And I thought running a corporation was hard? This isn't a wedding; it's a fucking conspiracy planned by pompous, cutthroat lunatics. Worse, they're delusional enough to believe they're visionaries. Wedding planners who want to color-coordinate flowers and bathroom accoutrements? What the hell's a bathroom accoutrement, anyway - toilet paper? ~ Andrea Kane
Citizen Kane quotes by Andrea Kane
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Citizen Kane quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Citizen Kane quotes by Thomas Jefferson
If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. That's not gallons, but barrels. Small changes in buying habits can make big differences. Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Citizen Kane quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
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