Movie Quotes

People are always telling you that change is a good thing, but what they're really saying is that something that you didn't want to happen just happened. : You've Got Mail
Nora Ephron

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't. : Now and Then
I. Marlene King

Yes, you see that even college students can do clever things at times, as long as it's not related to studying! : Paper Man
Kieran Mulroney

Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end. : Star Trek V Final Frontier
Gene Roddenberry

One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity : Bridge on the River Kwai
Pierre Boulle

I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. : The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris

Gentlemen, will you all now leave quietly, or must I ask Miss Cutler to pass among you with a baseball bat? : Man Who Came to Dinner
Julius J. Epstein

People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live. : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Robert Riskin

Nothing has turned out as we expected. It never does. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. : Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

What I'm trying to say is, 'I'm not a drinker - I'm a drunk. : The Lost Weekend
Charles R. Jackson

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.
James Stewart

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
Val Kilmer

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock

“Honestly, I think Robert and I should write a movie together. He has a very fertile mind. And he's good in bed.
Val Kilmer

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Clint Eastwood

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson

Acting is really cool.
Anne Frank

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick

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

I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Graham Greene

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
Shania Twain

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
Eddie Murphy

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Eddie Murphy

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.
Joan Crawford

I never enjoyed working in a film.
Marlene Dietrich

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.
Bruce Willis

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.
Tom Hanks

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
Chris Rock

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death
Jim Morrison

Film spectators are quiet vampires
Jim Morrison

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
George Burns

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
George Clooney

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
David Lynch

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
Penelope Cruz

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
Amanda Bynes

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
Ed Wood

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
Ed Wood

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.
Peter Sellers

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.
River Phoenix

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
Robert Redford

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
Marshall McLuhan

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
Ice T