Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Cassel

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Sandra Bullock

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

Roger Ebert

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Roger Ebert

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

Roger Ebert

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

Roger Ebert

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Sarah Vowell

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

Will Smith

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Wayne Rogers

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

Samuel L. Jackson

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Salma Hayek

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Salma Hayek

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

Salma Hayek

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Twyla Tharp

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

William Goldman

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

Walter Jon Williams

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

Walter Winchell

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Yogi Berra

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

Winona Ryder

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

Woody Allen

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Woody Allen

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

Woody Allen

Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

William Shatner

I did a movie in Esperanto.

Will Estes

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

Yahoo Serious

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

Wilson Mizner

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Wim Wenders

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Wim Wenders

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Will Rogers

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Zhang Ziyi

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

Vladimir Nabokov

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.