Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greta Garbo

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

Greta Garbo

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

Jessica Lange

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Jessica Lange

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

Jerry Garcia

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

Jerry Garcia

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

Federico Fellini

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Federico Fellini

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Francis Ford Coppola

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Francis Ford Coppola

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

Francis Ford Coppola

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Francis Ford Coppola

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Francis Ford Coppola

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Forest Whitaker

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Jean-Luc Godard

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Jean-Luc Godard

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Jerry Saltz

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

Jerry Saltz

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

Jerry Seinfeld

If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

Jeff Foxworthy

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

James Cameron

Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.

George Hickenlooper

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Christian Bale

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Christian Bale

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

Christian Bale

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Christian Bale

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

Christian Bale

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

George Takei

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Julianne Moore

I do like to work. I have my kids' books that I do, I have movies that I do, and I model.

Jodie Foster

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

Ice T

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Ice Cube

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.