| Topic |
Quote |
Author |
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| Movie | "So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" | Aguilera, Christina |
| Movie | "Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'" | Bullock, Sandra |
| Movie | "A film is a petrified fountain of thought." | Cocteau, Jean |
| Movie | "Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner." | Cox, Alex |
| Movie | "I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache." | Davis, Bette |
| Movie | "I never enjoyed working in a film." | Dietrich, Marlene |
| Movie | "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood." | Disney, Walt |
| Movie | "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country." | Eastwood, Clint |
| Movie | "Every great film should seem new every time you see it." | Ebert, Roger |
| Movie | "Most of us do not consciously look at movies." | Ebert, Roger |
| Movie | "It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work." | Ephron, Nora |
| Movie | "Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me." | Fellini, Federico |
| Movie | "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." | Godard, Jean-Luc |
| Movie | "A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order." | Godard, Jean-Luc |
| Movie | "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." | Godard, Jean-Luc |
| Movie | "I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." | Godard, Jean-Luc |
| Movie | "A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." | Goldwyn, Samuel |
| Movie | "Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success." | Goldwyn, Samuel |
| Movie | "In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good." | Heymann, C. David |
| Movie | "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director." | Hitchcock, Alfred |
| Movie | "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." | Hitchcock, Alfred |
| Movie | "A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it." | Hitchcock, Alfred |
| Movie | "In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man." | Hitchcock, Alfred |
| Movie | "Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher." | Kael, Pauline |
| Movie | "It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films." | Karloff, Boris |
| Movie | "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." | Kubrick, Stanley |
| Movie | "The secret to film is that it's an illusion." | Lucas, George |
| Movie | "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies." | Martin, Steve |
| Movie | "If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches." | McLaren, Norman |
| Movie | "Film spectators are quiet vampires." | Morrison, Jim |
| Movie | "The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films." | Newman, Paul |
| Movie | "Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo." | Pickford, Mary |
| Movie | "Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore." | Quaid, Dennis |
| Movie | "The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself." | Rogers, Will |
| Movie | "The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them." | Schmich, Mary |
| Movie | "You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same." | Schmich, Mary |
| Movie | "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out" | Scorsese, Martin |
| Movie | "Everything makes me nervous - except making films." | Taylor, Elizabeth |
| Movie | "Film lovers are sick people." | Truffaut, Francois |
| Movie | "It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it." | Warhol, Andy |
| Movie | "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." | Welles, Orson |
| Movie | "I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films." | Werner, Oskar |
| Movie | "Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award." | Wilder, Billy |
