Ellen Burstyn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

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

“It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.”

“The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.”

“I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.”

“I think that the change began... I made a film a few years ago called The Spitfire Grill, and that didn't make much money either, but it was a good film and an independent film.”

“I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.”

“I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.”