Cinema quotes

“John Houseman-All I am saying is, no one can write like that.
Herman Mankiewicz-But I can write like that, Houseman. I have. The narrative is one big circle, like a cinnamon roll. Not a straight line pointing to the nearest exit. You cannot capture a man’s entire life in two hours. All you can hope is to leave the impression of one.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Herman Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton - John Houseman

“In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.”
Wanda Sykes

“Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.”
Maika Monroe

“My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.”
Randolph Scott

“They use film as a method for living well, but theater is their heart's desire. They're always going back to it.”

Arthur Kennedy

“Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.”
Leslie Caron

“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
Leslie Caron On Liz Taylor

“The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.”
Cobie Smulders

“Most of my heroes had started out in the theater, so I was always doing plays, and I think initially it was just an escape and also a transcendent freedom that I discovered on the stage that I didn't feel anywhere else in my life.”

Jeremy Strong

“Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.”
Idris Elba

“In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.”
John Aniston

“There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.”
Anna Paquin

“The slash and burn of the white-hot metal will brand you forever with the logo of Cecil B. Demented. Wear the privileged scar of cinema sainthood with pride and horniness.”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood

“Cinemascope places a director somewhere between the stage and the screen technique.”
Henry Koster

“If black people did movies, my premise is that movies would be much shorter, because they wouldn't waste time with a lot of excess shit.”
Richard Pryor

“They are doing things on the screen now that I wouldn't do in bed. If I could.”

Bob Hope

“They're in the business to make money. They gamble on people more than scripts because who knows what will capture the public's imagination.”

Norman Jewison

“I predict that within five years you will be able to make a ten million dollar film and get all your money back in one night. There will be 25 million homes with cable TV or cassettes.”
Joseph Edward Levine

“There were giants in the industry. Now it is an era of midgets and conglomerates.”
Otto Preminger

“The biggest disappointment about working in films is that once you realize it's all ridiculous, there's not that much to feel strongly about.”
Sondra Locke

“On Hollywood's theory that the audience knows best, the schoolboy's 'lousy' is the last word in dramatic criticism.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.”
Marlene Dietrich

“Cinema is the director's medium. It is written even less than it is acted, but it is primarily the director's medium.”
Charlton Heston

“If you can't make a career out of two de Milles, you'll never do it.”
Charlton Heston On Cecil Blount DeMille