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”.

The more you look, the less you see.

Another thing that happens in the movies: They all have these dramatic crises where everything looks bleak and you think the couple will never, ever get back together. But then they realize they can’t live...

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels...

În spatele oricărei scene extraordinare de luptă stă un coregraf extraordinar care transcende dincolo de orice înţelegere şi exuberanţă!

Who cut him?’ Sam liked saying things like ‘Who cut him?’ It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

By eroding their sense of shame we’ve made immorality normal, not only in the world but also in the forbidden squadron. …their new Christian friends recommended some of the movies Fletcher had been wondering if...

The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.

If you watch a scary movie together, then the scariness is cut in half!

You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early… Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone — making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I haven’t been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

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

Bruce decides to spend the family fortune on capes and crime labs and to fritter away his free time fighting crazy criminals. Now that’s an out-of-the-box calling. What sort of person makes a life change...

It’s not what a movie is about, it’s how it is about it.

In this business, until you’re known as a monster, you’re not a star

The problem with being a second-generation Californian is you’re not objective about California itself. I think a lot of people come here for the comfort of it, or to reinvent themselves, and maybe creative people...

Everyone gets killed in the shower. Don’t you go to the movies? Psycho. Dead in shower. The MExican in No country for Old Men. Dead in shower. Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath. Almost dead...

And in that moment he realised that even though the dreams they’d seen together, hoped for and believed in had come true, it wasn’t enough. It was far from reality which was lonesome and woeful....

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone thinking it was us. In fact, one of the elderly residents of Saltram had left a pan...

Hollywood’s Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn’t need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

Dear Hunger Games :Screw you for helping cowards pretend you have to be great with a bow to fight evil.You don’t need to be drafted into a monkey-infested jungle to fight evil.You don’t need your...

People go to the movies instead of moving.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Which is an interactive sport for our family, since Gil likes to groan over the writing and point out the plot twists ahead of time, and Jeremy tears his hair out over the historical inaccuracies,...

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....