I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like...

That’s what the movies do. They don’t entertain us, they don’t send the message: ‘We care.’ They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

I can read in bed all night long. I can watch movies all night long. And I can have sex for literally minutes.

I watch silent movies on mute. But only for the dialogue.

Haven’t you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as...

I always find that if I sit down, a solution presents itself!

I rein myself in. I’m already breaking up with the guy. I don’t have to ruin his favorite movie.

…I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don’t…

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she’s a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] … I got better. Crowd: [shouts]...

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You’re the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. … Male strength — the desire to be cradled again? … I’d love someone to pick me up and carry me off. Frightening. Lindsay assures me I’d start...

In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.

Weren’t movies his generation’s faith anyway–its true religion? Wasn’t the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral?…what...

I wish we could go to the movies.”I stared at him. “We’re in a creepy dungeon. There’s a chance I might die in the next few hours. You are going to die in the next...

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

I wouldn’t give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn’t have a little bit of plain ordinary everyday kindness, and a little looking out for the other fellow, too.

of one hundred movies there’s one that is fair, one that’s good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up...

(On period costume posture coaching:)”We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

Why don’t you wear those tiny shorts when you run, like they do in the movies?” His voice was low and sexy, and he knew it.”Because I’m not in a movie. I know it’s confusing,...

You call that a kiss?

Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and...

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you...

Life without decency is unbearable.

Buscar la verdad es la mayor virtud y es lo que hace que un drama sea interesante. No me interesa contar historias con perfume de rosas en las que todo va bien

Rather than attack the Christian faith directly, many films undermine foundational Christian principles, including the human need for salvation. These films present a false “gospel” that leads people away from the truth. Recognizing these messages...

The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the 1930s. The period just prior to our last ‘good’ war. … Boiled down,...

In filmbees you will find how everything is well categorize for you so that you can read all the news not from the Bollywood industry but from the Hollywood, south Movies, Bollywood movie information etc…...

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you...

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

Now is the time to ask yourself, what you believe.

No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?

The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to the movies when he was just a boy, when the movies were new. Hugo’s father had...

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line ‘Don’t palm all your abuses [of language upon me]’ was possibly too rude. ‘It’s in the book,’ I said. He didn’t hit me.

And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop....

But hey, at least you can say you’ve got mail,” Andy said, chuckling.

Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.

You see man we are just fucking extras!! Extras in a capitalist blockbuster!~page 75

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the...