Movies
Stanley Kubrick on Movies
“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
Samuel Goldwyn on Movies
“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.”
Fred Allen on Hollywood
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.”
George Lucas on Movies
“The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.”
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
Jean Cocteau on Movies
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
Hodding Carter on Television
“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.”
J. W. Eagan on Books and Movies
“Never judge a book by its movie.”
Yoda Wisdom Quote
“Do or do not… there is no try.”
Walt Disney on Movies
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
Kate Reid on Acting
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.”
Roger Ebert on Movies
“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Movies
“I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun”
Marilyn Monroe on Hollywood
“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”