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Billy Wilder Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Oskar Werner I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Orson Welles A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Andy Warhol 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.
Francois Truffaut Film lovers are sick people.
Elizabeth Taylor Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Martin Scorsese Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Mary Schmich You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Dennis Quaid Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Mary Pickford Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Paul Newman The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Jim Morrison Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Steve Martin 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.
George Lucas The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
Boris Karloff It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
Pauline Kael Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Alfred Hitchcock In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Jean-Luc Godard I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
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 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.
Federico Fellini Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Roger Ebert Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Clint Eastwood This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Walt Disney Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Marlene Dietrich I never enjoyed working in a film.
Bette Davis I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Alex Cox Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner.
Jean Cocteau A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Sandra Bullock Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Christina Aguilera So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Steve Martin 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.
Bette Davis I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Roger Ebert Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Ellen Herman Joel That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed No thanks.
Airplane Captain Oveur Joey, do you like movies about gladiators
Dennis Quaid Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Mary Schmich 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.
Bill Bulko Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
Mary Pickford Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Henry Adams The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
Kareem Abdul-Jabar My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
Walt Disney Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Andy Warhol 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.
Bill Vaughn I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
Max Lerner Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
Dave Barry Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies
"I hate movies where the men wear shorter skirts than the
"Airport movies are like watering holes of B Movie actors."
"Yeah, back when movies had plots..." -- Joel Robinson
"An intimate evening of movies on Lifetime" -- Crow T. Robot
"Joel just transferred his home movies to videotape!" -- Crow
"We'll send him cheesy movies,the worst we can find!" (la,la,la)
"The oldest cliche in the movies... They're doomed." -- Crow
"We'll send him cheesy movies! The worst we can find!"
"Now keep in mind Mike can't control when the movies begin or end"
"All the good movies have Monsters & spaceships."
"I like Chinese detective movies," Tom chanted.
"You said I could watch the movies with you guys!" -- Gypsy
"Vulcans go to movies, but they don't enjoy them." --The Magian
If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.
"So this is where they make movies," Tom said studiously.
"You know, four movies went into the making of this film."
"Yeah, I haven't seen the first 12 Apollo movies."
"LIKE THE MOVIES!!!" -The Tick
"So, are you saying we should pay more attention to the MOVIES?"

 

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