Cinema quotes

“That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.”
Marc Webb

“Oh, come on people, don't be so pathetic. Stop looking at the world through your cellphone screens. Have a real experience! Does anybody give a shit about truth other than me?”
Edward Norton - Mike

“We think everybody knows Hollywood people. And everybody knows they'd shoot in Stalingrad with Pol Pot directing if it would sell tickets.”
Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

“Power to the people who punish bad cinema!”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“- Daisy: I'm returning to the theatre.
- George Lass: Returning? I thought you only did movies.
- Daisy: What's the difference?
- George Lass: A live audience.”
Sarah Wynter - Daisy
Ellen Muth - George Lass

“Please, Gary. I'm not from Hollywood, I'm not going to fuck your mouth.”
Daran Norris - Spottswoode

I love happy endings. You know, that's the problem with... the American cinema: can't handle any complexity in it, you know? "Don't make me think, I just wanna be entertained".
Ben Stiller - White Goodman

“I heard that Marilyn Monroe was discovered in a soda shop and I thought for sure that it could be like that, so I started going out real young and I was always secretly looking for who was going to discover me.”
Charlize Theron - Aileen

“I used to dream that I was in a musical, 'cause in a musical nothing dreadful ever happens.”
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Aaron: My script is now complete. Soon I will rule the industry, and you'll still be writing line one of whatever it's called.
- George: 3XR-259.7
- Aaron: Exactly.”
Jeff Wiens - Aaron
Martin Hynes - George

“- Dawn: Let me ask you a question: why do you want this?
- Guy: I don't know. It's just something I've always wanted to do.
- Dawn: Oh bullshit. Is it the money? There are easier ways to get rich. Girls? I'll float you a twenty and give you a number to call right now. Why the movies?”

Michelle Forbes - Dawn Lockard
Frank Whaley - Guy

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”
Alfred Hitchcock

“We got the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did we go right?”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock

“- Cherish: All my directors fuck me.
- Cecil: I am not all your directors! I am Cecil B. Demented!”
Alicia Witt - Cherish
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

- Martin Scorsese: I want to do a remake of "Raging Bull" with a really thin guy. Not just thin, but really thin. Thin and angry, thin and angry, thin and angry. Can you see it? Can you see it?
- Steven Phillips: Kind of.
- Martin Scorsese: Is there a Starbucks near here?
- Steven Phillips: I'd be careful. I think you had your quota.
- Martin... (continue)(continue reading)
Martin Scorsese - Himself
Albert Brooks - Steven Phillips

“- Cameron: What should I congratulate you for? The fucking scene or for fucking the director?
- Nina: For fucking the director, honey. Didn't you know that's how little girls get into the movies?”
Steve Railsback - Cameron
Barbara Hershey - Nina Franklin

“Okay you guys, listen up! People pay good money to see this movie! When they go out to a theater they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth! Do I have to come up there myself? Do you think the Gremsters can stand up to the Hulkster? Well, if I were you, I'd run the rest of Gremlins 2! Right now!”
Hulk Hogan - Himself

Bronson Canyon is less that ten minutes from Hollywood and Vine. Thousands of movies and television episodes have been filmed there. More movie good guys and bad guys died there than any other place on Earth. Now I knew that somebody up here was really dead. Not with blanks and blood capsules. Dead dead. No "take twos".
Robert Sacchi - Sam Marlow

“I'm not the Humphrey Bogart in this. I'm the Peter Lorre. I'm the sidekick character. You the Humphrey Bogart. You had your opening. You know what I'm saying? She wanted you to stop her from marrying the old dude, but you let it ride, you know? Same thing Bogey did, man.”
Yasiin Bey - Chris 'Cav' Anton Vichon

- Amy Mayfield: You filmed Sandra's death.
- Professor Solomon: It's called "cinéma vérité". Nice touch, don't you think?
- Amy Mayfield: It was out of focus. But you know what they say; those who can't do, teach.
Jennifer Morrison - Amy Mayfield
Hart Bochner - Professor Solomon

“Realism: not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision.”

“- Floyd Gondolli: This here's the future. Videotape tells the truth.
- Jack Horner: Wait a minute. You come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future? That the future is tape, videotape, and not film? That it's amateurs and not professionals? I'm a filmmaker, which is why I will never make a movie on tape.”
Philip Baker Hall - Floyd Gondolli
Burt Reynolds - Jack Horner

“The school virgin's home alone with her pussy, and I'm taking her to see Dawson. God, I've become a total fag.”

Robin Dunne - Sebastian Valmont

“Show business is, is dog-eat-dog. It's worse than dog-eat-dog. It's dog-doesn't-return-other-dog's-phone-calls, which reminds me I should check my answering service.”
Woody Allen - Cliff Stern

“- Buck Cluck: I'd like to see the movie they make about you now.
- Chicken Little: I just hope they stay true to what really happened?
- Buck Cluck: Oh, son. These people are from Hollywood. The one thing they will never do is mess with a good story.”
Garry Marshall - Buck Cluck
Zach Braff - Chicken Little