Movies Quotes

When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.

The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.

I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

'It will obliterate your senses!' reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.

No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.

I wrote a novel this year called <b>Shop Girl</b>, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, &#34;If you think you're going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending...that's going to cost you.

Film lovers are sick people.

The movie's director is the pilot. It's his vision. For an actor, the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't want to fly with the director, don't get on the plane.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me.

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

Somone lying back getting a wank absolutely should be something we see in cinema.

So where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

&#34;I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

This is fascinating! I love this picture! So I know it's going to be a bomb. It's always a disaster when you love something.

It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they'd say, 'We'll let you know.'&#34;

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them 'no, I went to films.'

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

What if a kid goes to school after seeing <i>Kill Bill</i> and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.

The MPAA rates this PG-13. It is too vulgar for anyone under 13, and too dumb for anyone over 13.

I'm not sure how much movies should entertain. I've always been more interested in movies that scar.

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

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.