814 Quotes About Movies

Many Hollywood films don’t do too much except advertise envy. What is so admirable about them is how much art is missing, how much questioning is not there. Stunning it is, how what are celebrated as the best, most innovative films are essentially publicity for the corporate control of the masses. As art they are as distinct as sand from other sand.

I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.

[On Darryl L. Zanuck, motion-picture producer] From Poland to polo in one generation.

You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

The movie intermission is actually the end of the trade.

Have you seen the movie of The Thirty Nine Steps?”“I saw an old one with Kenneth More.

film contains over two miles of celluloid so is quite heavy, properly so since it contains the labor of hundreds of people over many months to produce your two hour vacation.

The nice thing about life, and not the movies, is that there's no curtains, no The End. You can always write your own story. You can always start over and begin again. It doesn't have to make sense or go in a straight line. It happens. You make it happen.

In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.