814 Quotes About Movies

If I touch a burning candleI can feel no painIf you cut me with a knifeIt's still the sameAnd I know her heart is beatingAnd I know that I am deadYet the pain here that I feelTry and tell me it's not realAnd it seems I still have a tear to shed

The thirst for such strange fantastic sensations as [the motion picture] gives will grow ever greater, and we will be increasingly less able and less willing to grasp the everyday impressions of life.

Hollywood movies, however, have brainwashed us into thinking that we can defeat the alien invaders if they are a few decades or centuries ahead of us in technology. Hollywood assumes that we can win by using some primitive, clever trick. In Independence Day, all we have to do is inject a simple computer virus into their operating system to bring them to their knees, as if the aliens use Microsoft Windows.

Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

Just as every villain imagines themselves a hero, few heroes see when they've become the villain.

It was nine o'clock, cloudy, and a little like one of those science fiction movies where a few survivors are clinging to the wreckage, living out their days in the dry husk of civilization.

Your president only speaks for Americans. American movies speak for your world. Who hasn't seen Wizard of Oz? Or Jaws? Or Star Wars? We've seen them, and we're not even from this planet.

I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.