814 Quotes About Movies

Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Sometimes Truth Defies Reason

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes.

Art depicts life and life depicts art.

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

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

Oddly, most of the movies that actually managed to scare me were not really supposed to be horror movies