Quotes About Cinema

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. 

Mary Pickford

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light.  All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.  

John Boorman

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? 

Samuel Goldwyn

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.  

Agnes Repplier

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

  Wilson Mizner

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.  

John LeCarre

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. 

Don Marquis

Acting:  An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.  

Ralph Richardson

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.  

River Phoenix

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. 

Goldie Hawn

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough. 

Louis de Bernières

Rated G is nobody gets the girl.  PG is the good guy gets the girl.  R is the bad guy gets the girl.  XXX is everybody gets the girl.  

Author Unknown

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.  

Norman McLaren

Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?  

Augustus William

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather.  Later he played my father and finally he played my husband.  If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother.  That's the way it is in Hollywood.  The men get younger and the women get older.  

Lillian Gish

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

Alfred Hitchcock

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. 

Jessamyn West

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards.  A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman.  A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat. 

 Aaron Allston

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.  

Roman Polanski

A play should give you something to think about.  When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. 

T.S. Eliot

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long. 

Denis Leary