Movies Quotes
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford
Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.
Johnny Depp
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk
Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.
Martin Scorsese
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
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
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack
Everybody’s a filmmaker today.
John Milius
Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ‘bus movie.’
Sandra Bullock
Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
/> Elizabeth Taylor
Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison
Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn
‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.
Jerry Orbach
I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette Davis
I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.
Jean-Luc Godard
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that’s different than you imagine it.
Alex Winter
I make movies I want to see.
Neil LaBute
I never enjoyed working in a film.
Marlene Dietrich
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Francis Ford Coppola
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
John Hughes
I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner
I’ve always been an animal lover. I’ve grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on ‘Lassie’, I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
Will Estes
You read a script and its based on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’, and it goes right in the bin.
Tim Roth
If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.
Woody Allen
If you don’t like my movies, don’t watch them.
Dario Argento
It couldn’t sound like a dog, because K9 isn’t a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.
John Leeson
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