Movie Quotes

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

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Art, Gambling, Film Directing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Give me B movies or give me death!

  Clive Barker

  Giving, Cinema, Fiction

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 16, 2013

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

  Orson Welles

  Eye, Film Directing, Cameras

  1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.

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• I wish I knew how to quit you.

  Annie Proulx

  Romantic, Real Love, Romance

  Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

  Pauline Kael

  Believe, Care, Possibility

  1970 Going Steady.

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• Pain is temporary, film is forever.

  Michael J. Fox

  Funny, Pain, Forever

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• To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Hands, Play

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• I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Stars

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• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  Kishore Kumar

  Nice, People, Mad

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• No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

  Frank Capra

  Dark, Two, People

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• The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

  James Stewart

  People, Giving, Pieces

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• 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

  Gambling, Entertainment, Normal

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• Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

  Steven Spielberg

  Funny, Inspiring, Book

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Film History, Hollywood Films, Mafia

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Men, Imagination

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• The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

  Jodie Foster

  Film, Reason, Feels

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• Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Gambling, Actors, Film

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• My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

  Burt Reynolds

  Airplane, Kind, Prison

  Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur (2015). “But Enough About Me: A Memoir”, p.87, Penguin

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• Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

  Henry Travers

  Life, Christmas, Men

  "Fictional character: Clarence Oddbody". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

  Donald Glover

  Life, Understanding, Stories

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

  Roger Ebert

  Gambling, Film, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Roman Polanski

  Inspiring, Humorous, Profound

  "Values of the Wise: Aspiring to 'The Life of Value'". Book by Jason Merchey, 2004.

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• Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

  Rosalind Russell

  Giving, Theatre, Half

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• Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Stars

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• Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Hollywood Films, Great Year, Field Of Dreams

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