Quotes of Flick - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. ”

- Francis Ford Coppola

“ The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. ”

- Martin Scorsese

“ Do whatever you can to convince him to do the movie. ”

- Tobey Maguire

“ If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts. ”

- Adam Duritz

“ I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes. ”

- Ayumi Hamasaki

“ What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire. ”

- Paul Hogan

“ But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch. ”

- Unknown

“ Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. ”

- Jackie Kennedy

“ A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial. ”

- Andrew H. Malcolm

“ Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. ”

- Harriet van Horne

“ If any one of them deserves to be a shrine, it's Paddington. Its departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks its way through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England. ”

- Mark Wallington

“ 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

“ In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films. ”

- Kate Winslet

“ I never enjoyed working in a film. ”

- Marlene Dietrich

“ Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. ”

- Stanley Kubrick

“ You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ 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

“ Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face. ”

- Marjorie Rosen

“ I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists — there's no room for democracy in making film. ”

- Don Alan Pennebaker

“ There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. ”

- Clint Eastwood

“ Why, it is she that has got all Narnia under her thumb. It's she that makes it always winter. Always winter, and never Christmas; think of that! ”

- C. S. Lewis

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie. ”

- Tim Meadows
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