Cheeky horror director Alfred Hitchcock
From Denny: Culling the funniest ones about movies here's the beginning of what I'm sure is to become an exhaustive list! :)
Quotes
* A film is a petrified fountain of thought. - Jean Cocteau
* A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. - Orson Welles
* A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. - Alfred Hitchcock
* A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock
* A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. - Jean-Luc Godard
* A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. - Samuel Goldwyn
* Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. - Mary Pickford, silent film star in early Hollywood, adding sound to the film was controversial at that time
* Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. - Martin Scorsese (sort of like life!)
* Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. - Jean-Luc Godard
* Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. - Federico Fellini
* Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.' - Sandra Bullock, actress who starred in the successful movie
* Film lovers are sick people. - Francois Truffaut (1932 - 1984), French director
* Film spectators are quiet vampires. - Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), American rock musician
* I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. - Bette Davis, actress
* I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie. - Jean-Luc Godard
* I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. - Francis Ford Coppola
* I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. - Oskar Werner
* If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. - Woody Allen
* In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. - Alfred Hitchcock
* It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. - Andy Warhol
* Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. - Tim Burton (judging by what he produces I believe him!)
* Nobody makes movies bad on purpose. - Roland Emmerich (thanks for clearing that up for us!)
* Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. - Billy Wilder
* So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? - Christina Aguilera
* The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. - Alfred Hitchcock
* The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. - Will Rogers
* The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. - Mary Schmich
* The secret to film is that it's an illusion. - George Lucas
* There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. - Will Rogers
* This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. - Clint Eastwood
* You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. - Mary Schmich
* You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. - Steve Martin, actor, comedian, director
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