Quotes About Movies and Film By Directors, Actors And Other Persons

by allinspiration.com

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

“Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that’s there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.”
– Edward Zwick

“Everything makes me nervous – except making films.”
– Elizabeth Taylor

“In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

“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.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
– Francis Ford Coppola

“Film lovers are sick people.”
– Francois Truffaut

“The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.”
– George Lucas

“I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as ‘Tarzan’.”
– Henry Louis Gates

“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as ‘Tarzan’ and in programs such as ‘Ramar of the Jungle’ and ‘Sheena, Queen of the Jungle’.”
– Henry Louis Gates

“I have done many movies that people hadn’t seen. ‘The Fountain,’ I spent a year on that. ‘The Prestige’ with Chris Nolan, and ‘Australia.’ From my perspective it’s very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don’t. ‘Wolverine,’ ‘X Men,’ I know that in some level people know me just for that and it’s fine for me.”
– Hugh Jackman

“I’m doing ‘Les Miserables,’ the movie. I’ve done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I’ve been like, ‘Come on, let’s do a movie/musical’.”
– Hugh Jackman

“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
– Jean Cocteau

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

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

“I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.”
– Jean-Luc Godard

“I think there’s a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.”
– Jeff Bridges

“I’d maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.”
– Jeff Bridges

“I’m used to watching old movies of myself.”
– Jeff Bridges

“I’m very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it’s one of the great things about making movies is it’s a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character’s costume and what that might tell about your character.”
– Jeff Bridges

“In life and in movies, it’s a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.”
– Jeff Bridges

“Movies are like magic tricks.”
– Jeff Bridges

“Movies are very subjective.”
– Jeff Bridges

“Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.”
– Jeff Bridges

“Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies.”
– Jeff Bridges

“I have been pregnant in so many movies it’s ridiculous.”
– Jennifer Aniston

“There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.”
– Jennifer Aniston

“‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.”
– Jerry Orbach

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