Film Quotes

Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison

Quiet, Vampires, Spectators

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

Money, Country, Million

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

Human, Endurance, Related

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn

American, Ambition, Married

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
Johnny Depp

Success, Work, Care

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

Music, Feelings, Meaning

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
Angelina Jolie

Express, Sides, Wear

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

Good, Head, Unless

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
Angelina Jolie

Self, Living, Dark

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

Beautiful, Play, Big

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
Marlene Dietrich

Soldier, Grateful, American

I never enjoyed working in a film.
Marlene Dietrich

Working, Enjoyed

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

School, Tell, Ask

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

Bad, Makes, Twice

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

Good, Worth, Theatre

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Try, Difficult

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Time, Career, Country

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera

Year, Festival, Held

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
Stanley Kubrick

Best, Young, Movie

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
Steven Spielberg

Change, Working, Whatever

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

Focus, Win, Few

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

Thought, Fountain, Petrified

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

Time, Great, Seem

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
Quentin Tarantino

Music, Good, Writing

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.
Steve Martin

Good, Beautiful, Emotional

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
Jean Cocteau

Art, Paper, Pencil

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
Quentin Tarantino

Small, Room, Dogs

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
Quentin Tarantino

Life, Time, Movies

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
Quentin Tarantino

Critic, Qualified

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
David Bowie

Money, Finance, Writing

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