Quotes about Movies

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

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

"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'"

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

"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."

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

"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."

"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."

"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."

"We are the movies and the movies are us."

"The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself."

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

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

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

"When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me."

"Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses."

"The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time."

"I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it."

"The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know."

"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."

"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."

"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication."

"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

"There's an electrical thing about movies."

"Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'"

"It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it."