Cinema quotes

“- Victoria: Since when has she known how to surf?
- Abby Parker: Since this scene apparently...”
Jade Bronneberg - Victoria
Ashley Olsen - Abby Parker

“When I first went to Hollywood, I had a legion of yahoos, all plotting my down fall. It was a waste of time, of course. I was perfectly capable of destroying myself.”
Danny Huston - Orson Welles

“In order to make movies you have to think about the audience. You have to - otherwise you're just making movies for yourself. It's like, eh, like artistic masturbation.”

“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.”
Goldie Hawn - Elise Elliot Atchison

“You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit.”
John Travolta - Gabriel

“This is Hollywood. People here believe anything!”
Concetta Tomei - Nurse Rennert

“There are three rules in the film business - Distribution, distribution, distribution.”
Stanley Kaufman - Older man at Pool Party

“Death to mainstream cinema!”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“- Buddy: You wanna talk big directors? Think Attenborough, think Spielberg, think Lean.
- Guy: Lean's dead.
- Buddy: No he's not, don't you ever say that. He's just unavailable.”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman
Frank Whaley - Guy

“To my way of thinking, motion pictures are potentially the most influential form of communication ever invented. And there's no control over them. Your message reaches everyone, everywhere.”
Kevin Dunn - J. Edgar Hoover

"I'll think about it" means nothing in L.A.

Rene Russo - Karen Flores

“Fasten your drool cups, and ready your vomit bags! We're going to the movies! Frights, camera, action!”
John Kassir - Crypt Keeper

“- Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Why would you possibly want to be in a play when you could be in a film?
- Greta Schroeder: An audience gives me life. This... thing only takes it from me.”
John Malkovich - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Catherine McCormack - Greta Schröder

“There are boys in this class who will never know sanctifying grace. And why? Because of greed. Those greedy little blackguards are talking even now, about the money they'll get from the collection. They'll go from house to house in their little suits like beggars. And will they take any of that money and send it to the the poor black babies in...” (continue)(continue reading)

“Hey MPAA, how many movies have you censored today?”
Eric Barry - Fidget

“They'll make a movie about anything nowadays.”
David Warner - Waxwork Man

“- Assistant at Bewitched: You're wanted on the set.
- Lucille: Honey, I'm wanted in seven states.”
Amanda Aday - Assistant at 'Bewitched'
Melanie Griffith - Lucille

“Hollywood doesn't want writers, so much as secretaries with a flare for dialogue. If you want to be happy in Hollywood, be a cinematographer. Nobody knows what you're doing, so they can't screw with you.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: They always want to cast their buddies. It doesn't even matter if they're right for the part.
- Orson Welles: Tell me about it. I'm supposed to do a thriller for Universal. They want Charlton Heston as a Mexican.”

Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Vincent D'Onofrio - Orson Welles

“I was thinking about going home and putting a Spielberg movie in - 'Always' or '1941', something really great like that.”
Will Keenan - Casey Kaufman

“There are no rules in underground cinema, only edges.”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!”
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

“Motion pictures are for the people. Most of the people work for a living, and they don't make much money doing it. It gives them pleasure to see officialdom and the upper classes getting a kick up the backside. Always has, and it always will. And if that can change things, so much the better.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin