Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Freeman

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

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.

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.

Henry Rollins

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

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.

Laura Dern

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

Louise Brooks

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

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.

R. Lee Ermey

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

Nhat Hanh

If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.

John Green

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

Patti Smith

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Mindy Kaling

I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.

Mike Royko

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

Kirk Douglas

Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Kim Cattrall

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

Kevin Costner

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

Kathleen Turner

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

Patti Smith

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

Paul Newman

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

Matthew Fox

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Paul Goodman

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.