Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bridges

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Jack Valenti

I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

Jack Vance

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Christopher Lee

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

Frank O'Hara

oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

Christina Ricci

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

Chris Rock

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

Chris Rock

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

Morgan Freeman

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 have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

Morgan Freeman

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

Morgan Freeman

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

Harvey Fierstein

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

Harvey Fierstein

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

Gene Wilder

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

You want to look like a movie star for prom.

Richard Stanley

You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.

Casey Wilson

The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.

Elayne Boosler

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

Orson Welles

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

Oliver Stone

Greed-for lack of a better word-is good. Greed is right. Greed works.

Oliver Stone

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Oliver Stone

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Oliver Stone

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Oliver Stone

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Jordana Brewster

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

Kevin Spacey

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

Kevin Bacon

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

Jonathan Nolan

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Hedda Hopper

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Hedda Hopper

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

Gene Tierney

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

Gene Siskel

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.