Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

Peter Bart

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Martin Scorsese

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

Martin Scorsese

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Martin Scorsese

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Marlene Dietrich

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Marlon Brando

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Megan Fox

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

Hannibal Buress

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

Milla Jovovich

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Sean Penn

I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

Joel Edgerton

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

Rob Schneider

I don't make movies for critics, but he irks me.

Kate Winslet

I don't own copies of my own movies.

LL Cool J

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

Manuel Puig

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Lou Gehrig

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Jon Stewart

The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

Jodie Foster

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

George M. Cohan

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

George Lucas

May the Force be with you.

George Lucas

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

George Lucas

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Elvis Presley

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

Elvis Presley

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

John Milius

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

John Milius

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Joe Lando

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.

James Stewart

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

Jim Morrison

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Eric Stoltz

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

Lynda Obst

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

Lynda Obst

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.