Cinema quotes

“Aside from the fact that it’s nice to be employed, it’s nice to be employed on a show that everybody considers important.”
Gregory Itzin

“People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. ”
Kirk Douglas

“There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“- Milton: Hollywood is full of criminals whose careers are flourishing.
- Roman: I'm not a criminal. I was questioned. Yeah, but that's all. I was questioned. That's it.
- Milton: It's good for your mystique.
- Roman: You think it'll help me get work?”
Lance Henriksen - John Milton
Scott Foley - Roman Bridger

“I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?”
Thomas Kretschmann

“Sadly cinema owners are more interested in their bottom line, than the emotional maturity of their audience members.”
Marianne Muellerleile

“A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.”
Noah Emmerich

“I left school with no qualifications but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing.”
Dexter Fletcher

“It is better to watch things then to do them.”
Dan Castellaneta

“My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.”
Missi Pyle

“Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.”
Sam Elliott

“Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.”
Imelda Staunton

“I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies.”
Don Cheadle

“So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.”
David Strathairn

“I think any actor would rather do quality work than the episodic TV which pays the rent.”
Christopher McDonald

“From the beginning I've thought the key to this games is to be in it for life.”
Michael Murphy

“What you see on the screen is something that you don't have in this world today. You can just sit back and enjoy it.”
Desmond Llewelyn

“Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.”
Donal Logue

“I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.”
Bob Balaban

“I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.”
John Leguizamo

“- Vicar: Oh, Mr. Rudd. I understand that you are a film producer.
- Jason Rudd: Oh, no, sir. A director.
- Vicar: Is there any difference?
- Jason Rudd: Yes, sir. The producer supplies all the money; the director spends it. Then the producer yells that the director is spending too much money; the director doesn't pay any attention, and goes...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charles Lloyd Pack - Vicar
Rock Hudson - Jason Rudd

“The more I go to the movies, the more I like French movies.”
Claude Lelouch

“I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.”
Vincente Minnelli

“All I want is the same opportunities as the filmmakers I grew up admiring.”
Tim Story