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

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

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

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

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk


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

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

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

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

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

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack

Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Sandra Bullock

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut