MOVIES

MOVIES

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

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

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 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'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner

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

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock

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.
Andy Warhol

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Roger Ebert

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Yahoo Serious

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
Richard King

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
Tim Burton

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Nicolas Roeg

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Wim Wenders

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Roland Emmerich

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Dennis Quaid

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas

There's an electrical thing about movies.
Oliver Stone

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
Will Rogers

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

We are the movies and the movies are us.
David Ansen

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich

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.
Steve Martin