Quotes about Movies

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
-Robert Bresson

"My advice to young film-makers is this: Don't follow trends, Start them!"
-Frank Capra

"The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather."
-Hugh Grant

"In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too."
-Kirsten Dunst

"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
-Alfred Hitchcock

"Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills."
-David Mamet

"Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own."
-Richard Avedon

"Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political."
-Gene Wilder

"I don't know if All About My Mother is my best film yet. I haven't had time to analyse it. If you look at the argument it looks like an outrageous story, but the challenge was to show the story as something real and emotional. The truth is that everybody leaves the cinema feeling a better person."
-Pedro Almodovar

"Luke: What's in there?Yoda: Only what you take with you."
-Yoda

"No, I am your father."
-David Prowse

"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

"Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer."
-Warren Beatty

"Major Strasser has been shot! Round up the usual suspects!"
-Claude Rains

"Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses."
-Michael Caine

"Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive."
-Nancy Reagan

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."
-Stanley Kubrick

"Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity."
-Conan O'brien

"Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?"
-Yoda

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

"A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts."
-Donna A. Favors

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

"Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts."
-Gene Shalit

"Movies bore me, especially my own."
-Robert Mitchum

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
-Orson Welles

"I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema."
-Pedro Almodovar

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?"
-Clint Eastwood

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