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...

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It’s miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you...

I carry a little plastic tub with me, and I put my most valuable possessions in them—my means of travel, which are my feet. I soak them, sometimes for hours, while I watch a movie...

…the movies are most people’s exposure to ideas about the future.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: “What about Claudette Colbert? She’s British, isn’t she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

When everything gets answered, it’s fake.

Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Let’s go and experience the art of the cinema. Let’s...

I suspect that I’m not alone when it comes to altering my surroundings depending on how I feel at any particular moment: diving into a specific book, immersing inside a particular movie, devouring certain foods...

Uh, listen here mister. We got no way understandin’ this world. We got about as much sense of it as bird flyin’ in the sky. There’s a lot that bird don’t know, though it don’t...

Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, ‘Bette Davis Eyes’. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement...

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: ‘Hugh, could you look less — um –‘Hugh: ‘Pained?

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical,...

If you’re using half your concentration to look normal, then you’re only half paying attention to whatever else you’re doing.

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about...

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That’s why we go to movies and say, “Oh, the book is better.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

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...