Movies Quotes

• If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

  Woody Allen

• We are the movies and the movies are us.

  David Ansen

• Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

  Tim Burton

• A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

  Jean Cocteau

• I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

  Francis Ford Coppola

• I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

  Bette Davis

• I never enjoyed working in a film.

  Marlene Dietrich

• Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

  Roland Emmerich

• A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.

  Jean-Luc Godard

• Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

• 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

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

  Richard King

• I make movies I want to see.

  Neil LaBute

• 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

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

  Christina Aguilera

• If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

  Dario Argento

• Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'

  Sandra Bullock

• 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

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

  Clint Eastwood

• Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

  Roger Ebert

• Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

  Roger Ebert

• Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

  Federico Fellini

• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

  Samuel Goldwyn

• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  Samuel Goldwyn

• 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

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

  George Lucas

• Everybody's a filmmaker today.

  John Milius

• Film spectators are quiet vampires.

  Jim Morrison

• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

  Mary Pickford

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

  Nicolas Roeg

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

  Will Rogers

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

  Will Rogers

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

  Mary Schmich

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

  Mary Schmich

• Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

  Sydney Pollack

• When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

  Sydney Pollack

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

  Dennis Quaid

• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  Martin Scorsese

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

  Yahoo Serious

• 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

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

  Wim Wenders

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  Oskar Werner

• And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

  Douglas Sirk

• There's an electrical thing about movies.

  Oliver Stone

• Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

  Elizabeth Taylor

• Film lovers are sick people.

  Francois Truffaut

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

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

  Billy Wilder

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