We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade....

people don’t really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.

When Rip Torn dies – heaven forbid – but when he dies, you’ll only have to write RIP Torn.

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took...

Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the screen isn’t quite real; it leaves open a vague cloudy space for the poor, for dreams and...

Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman — Tell us about the film you’re going to make.Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It’s called “Charlie Chan In London”. It’s a detective story.Mabel Nesbitt: Set in London?Morris Weissman: Well, not...

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Shouldn’t we stand back to back or something?” “What? Why?” “I don’t know. In movies that’s what they do in this kind of… situation.

R means under 18 accompanied by an adult. Therefore all corporately funded films in the US must be made with the concept that those under the age of 18 are able to view the film....

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

I ask Laurie if it’s possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I’ve never produced a movie.

Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out

The Runaway Five’s obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film’s producers. When I told my...

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There’s a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo’s role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding...

No matter what they’re charging to get in, it’s worth more to get out.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

the problem is, lahat na lang kasi ng pelikula pinipilit gawing pampamilya. one size fits all. kaya tuloy ang material for movies nagiging too mature for kids and too cheesy for adults.

It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to...

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he’s the one, of course it was a dream, of...

I AM Groot

What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.

A girl is just like a movie, you want to know what happends next, and how it will end…

It was personal to me.” ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You’ve Got Mail

Is it safe?

It’s hard for me to talk about love,’ she said. ‘I think movies are the way I do that.

I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me

I cried during Old Yeller. Not the part when the dog got shot, but in the beginning, just before the movie actually starts.

If Wolf Blitzer goes through his entire career on air without crying, I think that’ll be the time to greenlight the remake of ‘Never Cry Wolf.

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa’s films can be an exercise in endurance.

Do you think he’s the murderer?””It’s worse than that — he’s an actor!

Movies can be a kind of advertisement for a city, a place.

TV is a question, movies are an answer.

It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems...

I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.

[Over breakfast] We discussed the ‘novelisation’ question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility. I’ve said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting...

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we...

You want society to accept you, but you can’t even accept yourself.

Am I a romantic? I’ve seen “Wuthering Heights” ten times. I’m a romantic.

I’m a damsel, I’m in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day!

The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there’s no audience for unusual, original pictures – because they think they’ve made one.

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

Everything I learned I learned from themovies.

I went on a blind date last night. We watched a silent film. We stayed up all night talking in sign language. I fell asleep in the fetal position in her cat’s litter box. Ah,...

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

There’s a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny’s lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is...

Dreams were the first movies.

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said that 90% of successful movie making is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself...

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach...