Movies Quotes

"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."

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

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are."

"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."

"The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie."

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."

"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'"

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

"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."

"The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself."

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

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

"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."

"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."

"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

"Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it."

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

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."

"Film lovers are sick people."

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

"A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan."

"I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries."

"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."

"Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent."

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

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

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