Film Quotes

If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not just the capital of California. It's the place where our children learn how and what to dream and where everything happens just before, or just after, it happens to us.

~ Ross Macdonald

From one side what Steve Jobs has planted in his brain That everyday is his last day... - is a great idea and I can support it. But to think that everyday will be your last they won't be some kind a wanting to die soon or to be more close to say to fate Come here, I want to die. Please take first my soul then the other people soul?. Sometimes by doing this and saying in my mind I feel like this I challange the fate. You can check out the film about Paul Averhoff - Check out what this guy has done he is runner, but look what happen in his life!

~ Deyth Banger

Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But I have seen people destroy themselves in the smallest way, I’ve seen people withdraw, I’ve seen people hide behind political ideas, behind dope, behind the sexual revolution, behind fascism, behind hypocrisy, and I’ve myself done all these things. So I can understand them. What we are saying is so gentle. It’s gentleness. We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

~ John Cassavetes

Three wishes, to be exact. And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes.

~ Aladdin (1992)

I don’t need a medal to tell me I’m a good guy.

~ Wreck It Ralph (2012)

All my life flashed before my eyes.… It was really boring.

~ Chicken Run (2000)

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.

~ Ratatouille (2007)

The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.

~ Seré Prince Halverson

Toni, you bring me luck. I'm gonna wear you like a charm.

~ Robert Rossen

One gets the sense that, for Deleuze, the cinema of the movement-image has been fully realized while that of the time-image is emergent. Comparatively speaking, there are few pure examples of films where direct images of time predominate. Mixed or hybrid examples are more common.

~ D. N. Rodowick

But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.

~ Sidney Lumet

Outside the cinema I had not yet learned to live, but within it I had most certainly learned to die. I could die for you in every way known to man, and in a few ways known only to scriptwriters. I could see now that provided that I remained fit, the future held many more deaths yet. I could only hope that they would serve some purpose, and that perhaps a reputation may come in the same way as a coral formation, which is made up of a deposit of countless tiny corpses.

~ Christopher Lee

Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite

~ Clive Barker

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

~ David Lynch

You should look straight at a film, that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

~ Werner Herzog

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie.

~ Amit Kalantri

Piracy begins where creativity ends.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Adolescence is a marketing tool.

~ Cameron Crowe

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It's not about art or ideas. It's about working at something and making it come out right.

~ Paul Auster

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

~ Hugo Munsterberg

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

~ Werner Herzog

The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.

~ Roger Ebert

I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

~ Lena Dunham

What is this film (Mirror) about?It is about a Man. No, not the particular man whose voice we hear from behind the screen, played by Innokentiy Smoktunovsky. It's a film about you, your father, your grandfather, about someone who will live after you and who is still you. About a Man who lives on the earth, is a part of the earth and the earth is a part of him, about the fact that a man is answerable for his life both to the past and to the future. You have to watch this film simply, and listen to the music of Bach and the poems of Arseniy Tarkovsky; watch it as one watches the stars, or the sea, as one admires a landscape. There is no mathematical logic here, for it cannot explain what man is or what is the meaning of his life. (Sculpting in Time)

~ Andrey Tarkovsky

We Live in a World Measured by Piracy because Piracy means Access.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Piracy of Bollywood; or Bollywood of Piracy, Tough to Say.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

There is a Pirate in every one of us.

~ Kalyan C. Kankanala

Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There's something very beautiful in that. It was worth making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It's worth it.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

~ Robert Bresson

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the movies. Let’s go and experience the art of the cinema. Let’s begin with the Scream Of Fear, and we are going to haunt us for the rest of our lives. And then let’s go see The Great Escape, and spend our summer jumping our bikes, just like Steve McQueen over barb wire. And then let’s catch The Seven Samurai for some reason on PBS, and we’ll feel like we speak Japanese because we can read the subtitles and hear the language at the same time. And then let’s lose sleep the night before we see 2001: A Space Odyssey because we have this idea that it’s going to change forever the way we look at films. And then let’s go see it four times in one year. And let’s see Woodstock three times in one year and let’s see Taxi Driver twice in one week. And let’s see Close Encounters of the Third Kind just so we can freeze there in mid-popcorn. And when the kids are old enough, let’s sit them together on the sofa and screen City Lights and Stage Coach and The Best Years of Our Lives and On The Waterfront and Midnight Cowboy and Five Easy Pieces and The Last Picture Show and Raging Bull and Schindler’s List… so that they can understand how the human condition can be captured by this amalgam of light and sound and literature we call the cinema.

~ Tom Hanks

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical, which was spawned by Broadway. They remind me of jazz: they allowed for endless, increasingly complex, sometimes perverse variations. When these variations were played by the masters, they reflected the changing times; they gave you fascinating insights into American culture and the American psyche.

~ Martin Scorsese

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

~ Stanley Kubrick

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

~ John Cassavetes

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

~ Billy Wilder

Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.

~ Mark Kermode

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

~ David Cronenberg