Cinema quotes

“I'm a professional. I've done pretty well, don't you think? I've survived in a pretty rough business.”
Humphrey Bogart

“What the star-system represents is a typical sickness in our society — competition, competition success-oriented.”
Jane Seymour Fonda

“I know Americans better than people of any other country and by knowing them better I think I know what they laugh at and what should be laughed at.”
Frank Capra

“Hollywood film-making of today is stooping to cheap salacious pornography in a crazy bastardization of a great art.”
Frank Capra

“The MGM lot is the Baghdad of filmdom.”
Frank Capra

“I'll tell you about those men. They were monsters and pirates and bastards right down to the bottom of their feet, but they loved movies. They loved making movies, they loved seeing movies and they protected the people who worked for them. Some of the jerks running the business now don't even have faces.”

Richard Brooks

“My knowledge of art is limited to Kirk Douglas as Vincent VanGogh.”
Woody Allen - Joe

“When you get a sex story in biblical garb, you can open your own mint. ”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“We are in this business primarily to provide entertainment, but in doing so we do not dodge the issue if we can also provide enlightenment.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“The movies are the greatest political fact in the world today.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“- Eddie Mannix: Baird Whitlock has been kidnapped.
- Hobie Doyle: This is bad. Bad for movie stars everywhere.”
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix
Alden Ehrenreich - Hobie Doyle

“I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.”
Ryan Murphy

“The cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.”
Jean-Luc Godard

“It is a formula for a funeral, or for snakes, but not for human beings.”

Fritz Lang

“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
Fritz Lang

“When banks came into pictures, trouble came with them.”
Cecil Blount DeMille

“There's only one way to get into pictures if you have as little talent as I have: you have to know somebody.”
Don Siegel

“My status is 8-T- that means I go when the Japs are in the lobby.”

George Jessel

“There might have been good movies if there had been no movie industry.”
David O. Selznick

“If you are primarily concerned with something called personal artistic integrity, you don't belong in the business of making pictures.”
David O. Selznick

“There is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.”
Ethel Barrymore

“I can't frankly see much difference in the film industry at all. The only difference might be that they don't take as much time as they used to. For example, they'll do in one day what we used to take a week to do.”
Glenn Ford

“Brando has yet to learn to speak. He should have been born two generations before and acted in silent films.”
Richard Burton On Marlon Brando

“The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.”
Charlton Heston

“Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.”
Bud Abbott