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

by allinspiration.com

“I’ve seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.”
– Martin Scorsese

“My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.”
– Martin Scorsese

“Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way.”
– Martin Scorsese

“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”
– Mary Pickford

“The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.”
– Mary Schmich

“You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same.”
– Mary Schmich

“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”
– Maurice Sendak

“I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.”
– Meryl Streep

“I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.”
– Michael Caine

“I really don’t have favorites; I’m just a fan of movies, period.”
– Michael Clarke Duncan

“Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”
– Morgan Freeman

“I make movies I want to see.”
– Neil Labute

“And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.”
– Nicolas Cage

“Movies are not scripts – movies are films; they’re not books, they’re not the theatre.”
– Nicolas Roeg

“There’s an electrical thing about movies.”
– Oliver Stone

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
– Orson Welles

“I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.”
– Oskar Werner

“Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.”
– Pauline Kael

“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

“I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies.”
– Richard King

“Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.”
– Richard King

“I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that’s happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop – stop dead – and I miss it.”
– Richard Pryor

“By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.”
– Roger Ebert

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”
– Roger Ebert

“Most of us do not consciously look at movies.”
– Roger Ebert

“Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.”
– Roland Emmerich

“My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.”
– Russell Crowe

“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

“Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

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

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