I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

You can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That’s all anything ever is. Nothing more than coYou can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That’s all anything...

People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn’t possibly choose.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!

In New York I’d go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I’ve upped it to six or seven, mainly because I’m too lazy to do anything else. Fortunately, going to the...

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

(Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of Jane Austen’s letters):”Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding, was not without its...

When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you’ve sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, “You Chinese dog,” before getting his ass kicked, it...

A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. More recently an opera has been composed and performed. And soon there will be a film. Does...

Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?— A very lost Marcus Brody

After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only...

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a...

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

Never judge a book by its movie.

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the...

Don’t worry so much about ‘not supposed to’.

I can’t work in a sewer. I come from California.

The worst thing about movie-making is that it’s like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, ‘I’m free’.

It’s like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better...

If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

We’ve hired the calmest babies in the world to play the hysterical Thomas. One did finally start to cry but stopped every time Chris [Newman (assistant director)] yelled ‘Action’. … Babies smiled all afternoon. Buddhist...

People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?”[Interview in The Independent,...

since you are spending time to watch a movies , make it a useful time for a great movie , not just a good movie .. movies are like food , some meals are delicious...

Hopefully one day wars will only be fought in movies and may the best producer win

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

Embrace the probability of your imminent death….and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

Most of the movies are working like, ‘Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut’ and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information – I try to involve,...

I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like...

That’s what the movies do. They don’t entertain us, they don’t send the message: ‘We care.’ They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

I can read in bed all night long. I can watch movies all night long. And I can have sex for literally minutes.

I watch silent movies on mute. But only for the dialogue.

Haven’t you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as...

I always find that if I sit down, a solution presents itself!

I rein myself in. I’m already breaking up with the guy. I don’t have to ruin his favorite movie.

…I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don’t…

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she’s a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] … I got better. Crowd: [shouts]...

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You’re the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. … Male strength — the desire to be cradled again? … I’d love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I’d start...

In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.

Weren’t movies his generation’s faith anyway–its true religion? Wasn’t the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral?…what...

I wish we could go to the movies.”I stared at him. “We’re in a creepy dungeon. There’s a chance I might die in the next few hours. You are going to die in the next...

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

I wouldn’t give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn’t have a little bit of plain ordinary everyday kindness, and a little looking out for the other fellow, too.