814 Quotes About Movies

When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the actresses up close and, yes, they are beautiful, but they are human size and imperfect like the rest of us.

I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life.But I was wrong.

Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

All the movies with young people were about wanting sex; all the movies with old people were about wanting sex. He would watch these films and feel defeated. When did you get to stop wanting to have sex?

My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along.