Quotes of Film - somelinesforyou

“ The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films. ”

- Paul Newman

“ It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. ”

- Boris Karloff

“ I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally… To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary. ”

- Julia Roberts

“ After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and — Boom! — people go. ”

- Jackie Chan

“ You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. ”

- Werner Herzog

“ If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job. ”

- Woody Allen

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

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things. ”

- Antonio Banderas

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ A film is a petrified fountain of thought. ”

- Jean Cocteau

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

- Orson Welles

“ I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star-I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie. ”

- Jason Lee

“ Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. ”

- Robert Bresson

“ If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. ”

- Woody Allen

“ This movie thing is creative. It's the most creative thing I've done in years. ”

- Toby Keith

“ In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial. ”

- Wesley Snipes

“ No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. ”

- Ingrid Bergman

“ The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas. ”

- Jimmy Cannon

“ If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores. ”

- Gerard Depardieu

“ The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off. ”

- Ron White

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

- Bette Davis

“ I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war. ”

- Golda Meir

“ Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. ”

- Robert Altman

“ Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking. ”

- Tin Woodsman

“ Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ The British are really good at that. They are so incestuous,... They pass around partners as if it was popcorn at a movie. 'Do you want some?' It's just bizarre. ”

- Cameron Diaz

“ He's a very passionate guy,... I sublet his apartment to be nearer to the guy I was dating. Maybe I should do a movie about that. ”

- David Hunt
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