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

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

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

Good, Head, Unless

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

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

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

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

Good, Worth, Theatre

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

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

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

Year, Festival, Held

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

Movies, Magic, Cinema

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

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

Focus, Win, Few

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

Time, Great, Seem

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

Thought, Fountain, Petrified

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

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

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

Art, Paper, Pencil

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg

Through, Knowing, Camera

Pain is temporary, film is forever.
Michael J. Fox

Pain, Forever, Temporary

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
John Malkovich

Impossible, Lose, Often

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
Steven Spielberg

Director, Weren, Composer

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