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.

The picture’s over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Books and movies, they are not mere entertainment. They sustain me and help me cope with my real life.

We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

I know you can’t see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you’ll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don’t love...

The goddamn movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding -Holden Caulfield

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2...

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Henry Jones: I didn’t know you could fly a plane!Indiana Jones: Fly — yes, land — no.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it’s like a law of nature.

Watching movies simply is a promiscuous experience. The voracity it breeds! That quantity of quiddity compressed and quickened and sent at you! It’s a little bit mad, isn’t it, to hold a faithful flame for...

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.

If I had to describe my penis with a movie title, it would be: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice…it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous…

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great...

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong...

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of...

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not...

I’m not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

We didn’t need sex. We had Tyrone Power.

NOOOO!” On the screen, a woman’s eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream.Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her,...

The longing for improvement and the fear of waste and worse – it is a pattern still with us, and maybe it speaks to the medium’s essential marriage of light and dark, or as Mary...

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn’t been the same since.

Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.

They saw me. Milton’s smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease...

(Sadie)”I’m not judging you, Dylan. I love vampire movies. If I looked surprised it was only because it’s so different from your TV work, that’s all.”His shoulders relaxed a notch. “Sorry. Olly gives me a...

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires – a villain.

In thinking about ‘depressing movies,’ many people don’t realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln’s nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission…was rather upset at this thought. I...

In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author portrayed in the book: I wasn’t blond, I wasn’t tan, and neither was the actor....

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

I thought the movie was too short to pay for, and too long to be free. But I’d watch it again, if I were wearing a blindfold and stuffed in the trunk of a car....

Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that...

In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea or a flag for which we fight. Rather we fight for the man on our right or left. When the years fall away, all...

I made that up. You know Marcus. He got lost once in his own museum.

Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horrible, when...

A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it...

That was a hell of a thing.

I like wearing a blindfold while watching movies, so that I can focus on the dialogue. My favorite flicks are the silent movies.

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left...

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I’d want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that’s the truth. I’d do the cooking and leave the decorating to her,...

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.