Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

movies

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

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

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Film lovers are sick people.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

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

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

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

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

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

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

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

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

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

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

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

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

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

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.