Movies Quotes

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

A film is but a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

A good film is when the price of the dinner and the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock 

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard 

The wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk

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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Pauline Kael

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

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

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack

Everybody's a film-maker nowadays.
John Milius

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

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Nicolas Roeg

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Wim Wenders

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Roland Emmerich

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

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Dennis Quaid

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers

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

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

There's an electrical thing about movies.
Oliver Stone

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

We are the movies and the movies are us.
David Ansen

When you make a film u usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack

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

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

You know what ur problem is, it's that u haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in movies.
Steve Martin

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