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| The novel can't compete with cars, the MOVIES, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished. | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 1894-1961, French Author |
| Advertising is a racket, like the MOVIES and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. | Source Unknown | |
| Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it. | Alfred Hitchcock | 1899-1980, Anglo-American Filmmaker |
| The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. | Alfred Hitchcock | 1899-1980, Anglo-American Filmmaker |
| I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. | Audrey Hepburn | 1929-1993, American Actress, Dancer, Model |
| The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to MOVIES and theme parks. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. | Ben Hecht | 1894-1964, American Newspaperman, Novelist, Playwright |
| Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- with a wry smile on our faces, and a sense of accomplishment -- ''That's for you!'' [On shooting Schindler's List] | Ben Kingsley | 1943-, British-born American Actor |
| We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set. | Bill Paxton | 1955-, American Actor, Director, Musician, Producer, Screenwriter |
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| My MOVIES were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. | Burt Reynolds | 1936-, American Actor, Director |
| MOVIES are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. | Charlie Chaplin | 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker |
| All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary MOVIES. The demand for extraordinary MOVIES increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. | Clive James | 1939-, Australian-Born Writer, Satirist, Broadcaster, and Critic |
| A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there. | Daryl Hannah | 1960-, American Actress |
| My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down. | David Puttnam | |
| Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts. | Denis Waitley | 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert |
| You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went. | Dennis Hopper | 1936-, American Actor, Director |
| Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. | Doug Horton | |
| I've tried like hell to make bad MOVIES good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making The Appaloosa a good movie. | Dylan McDermott | |
| I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. | Elton John | 1947-, British Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
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| Critics are usually kinder to cheaper MOVIES than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. | Ethan Coen | 1957-, American Director, Screenwriter, Editor, Producer |
| I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many MOVIES I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. | Forest Whitaker | 1961-, American Actor, Director |
| The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's m | Frank Zappa | 1940-, American Rock Musician |
| Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. | Fred A. Allen | 1894-1957, American Radio Comic |
| The MOVIES today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year? | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. | Ingrid Bergman | 1915-1982, Swedish-born American Screen, Stage Actress |
| A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. | Jack Nicholson | 1937-, American Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| Even though I make those MOVIES, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life. | Jane Seymour | |
| A film is a petrified fountain of thought. | Jean Cocteau | 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker |
| All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. | Jean-Luc Godard | 1930-, French Filmmaker, Author |
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| It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner MOVIES. We are seeing what is before us. | John Bradshaw | American Author, Lecturer, Leading Expert, Recovery & Dysfunctional Families |
| In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. | John Carpenter | 1948-, American Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time. | John Travolta | 1954-, American Actor, Dancer |
| The difference between life and the MOVIES is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
| People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me? | Juliette Lewis | 1973-, American Actress |
| I just love, I love, I love MOVIES. | Laura Dern | 1967-, American Actress |
| Does art reflect life? In MOVIES, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face. | Marjorie Rosen | |
| Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those MOVIES, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 MOVIES The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting] | Matt Damon | 1959-, American Actor, Screenwriter |
| I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me. | Milla Jovovich | 1975-, Soviet-born Actress, Model, Singer, Songwriter |
| Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. | Norman Mailer | 1923-, American Author |
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| One of the joys of going to the MOVIES was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. | Oliver Stone | 1946-, American Director, Writer, Producer |
| A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. | Orson Welles | 1915-1985, American Film Maker |
| My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. | Robert Bresson | 1907-, French Film Director |
| Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one. | Robert Brustein | |
| I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer. | Sam Shepard | 1943-, American Actor, Playwright, Director, Screenwriter |
| A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. | Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM |
| Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? | Samuel Goldwyn | 1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM |
| You can't do four MOVIES and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down. | Sarah Jessica Parker | 1965-, American Actress |
| Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in MOVIES or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live. | Shelley Winters | 1920-, American Actress |
| 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 | 1928-, American Screen Writer, Film Producer, and Director |
