Fairy tales only happen in movies.” -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing…I want to be in good movies.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Just then, just when I thought I would be free from the repeated blows to my tender head of the Stupidity Hammer, the Stupidity Hammer rose up from the shining screen, drew back, whirled hugely,...

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

Now, clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don’t give it any help, it knows too much already.

I don’t know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think… I...

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is...

If I’m going to write a book every American will want to read, it’s got to have lots of pictures. Those pictures must also move, and all the words in the book must be spoken...

Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon — arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Lee] sees a B & B sign he thinks it’s for another movie.

There’s never any telling what you’ll say or do next, except that it’s bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.

Today’s youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon.

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia’s better off without the lot of you!

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That’s something I want to see again. In terms...

I want to end my life by eating so much Viagra that I go out like that movie and Die Hard. If you want to watch, I just made popcorn.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television. When we move a story from one medium to another, no...

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always say no, that’s not the point. To a Catholic, a movie is only...

I’m only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

They should.””Should be like a wood bee,” she said.It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies...

My Heart Will Go On,” which at this moment in time was not a sentiment I could endorse.

Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.

Contar una película es como contar un sueño. Contar una vida es como contar un sueño o una película.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant…does it get any better than this?

Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I’ve been asked if I related personally to Carrington’s tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I’d had a very...

All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women to the fortunes of war, because bearing and raising the next...

Home is what we know we ought to want but can’t really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its...

We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to escape and to dream and to gaze into the eyes that are impossibly...

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest “dude.

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen...

Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man.Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They’re written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.

I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a...

Edward finds Elinor crying for her dead father, offers her his handkerchief and their love story commences. Ang [Lee] very anxious that we think about what we want to do. I’m very anxious not to...

Have you ever seen The Last of the Mohicans?””I love it.””Really?” I’m over the moon. We share a movie. Finally, we’re on the same planet.”Don’t you love the part where he says, ‘Stay alive. I...

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It’s how I feel after a good dinner. That’s why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind...

Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving!...

Wanna see how creepy I can be?”-Mr Teatime

I hope that’s a good thing,’ I said, thinking he might say I reminded him of a film star- then we’d actually have something in common. I was hoping for Anne Hathaway or Julia Roberts,...

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

That’s the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor”.