1,004 Quotes Regarding Movies


Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
Tim Burton

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette Davis

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

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

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Sandra Bullock

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Roger Ebert

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
Tim Roth

Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner