Movie quotes

“- Brewster: I don't care who does what to whom in this country, but you're an American citizen, that makes you my responsibility. You're so lucky not to be floating face down in the Tiber right now. So please, finish your lousy movie and try to stay out of trouble for five minutes.
- Orson Welles: Maybe you're right.
- Brewster: I know I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Walken - Brewster
Danny Huston - Orson Welles

- Benjamin Oliver: Oh, actually all champagne is French; it's named after the region. Otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Americans of course don't recognize the convention, so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white "Champagne", even though by definition they're not.
- Wayne Campbell: Ah yes, it's a lot like "Star Trek:... (continue)(continue reading)
Rob Lowe - Benjamin Oliver
Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell

“- Bunny Breckinridge: How do you get all your friends to get baptized just so you can make a monster movie?
- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.”
Bill Murray - Bunny Breckinridge
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood

“I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.”
Sir Michael Caine

“If you tell anyone, we'll kill you first, and then your whole family, and we'll watch the film over and over and over.”
Lucas Jade Zumann - Milo

“Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.”
Jeff Bridges

“I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character.”
Harrison Ford On Sir Ridley Scott

“When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.”
Heath Ledger

“I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.'”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“There are down-beat, dirty pictures. They deal with futility and hopelessness. The hell with them. I'm not going to make them. ”
James Stewart

“Everybody obviously wants deeply to laugh at anything today. It's like the war years in that people wants escapism, big escapism. What the devil, it's a nervous world we live in. But it's the affluent society too and we're all on a spending spree.”
Burt Lancaster

“The bigger the picture, the bigger the ticket, the better.”
Burt Lancaster

“There are times when I want to get out of the business. Everybody wants to make these big epic entertainments. They're empty. And worst of all, a lot of them just aren't very well made, but the critics go overboard.”
Burt Lancaster

“I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face. If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll do something about it.”
Grace Kelly

“I’m going to be synchronizing our watches just like they do in the movies.”

Richard Jenkins - Giles

“I went to see one of those X-rated pictures the other night, and I couldn't believe my eyes. So I stayed to see it a second time.”
Jack Benny

“Most heads of studio stop reading scripts when they get their jobs and become hostage to the reports of low-paid readers, who are usually young, frustrated filmmakers.”
John Boorman

“Hey Schindler, leave no Jew behind!”

Jeremy Piven - Ari Gold

“It would have been more logical if silent movies had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way round.”
Mary Pickford

“The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.”
W.C. Fields

“Papertigers don't shoot back!”
Kellan Lutz - Harry Turner

“The budget for Apocalypse Now in 1979 was over $25 million. For that sort of money we could have invaded somewhere.”
Clint Eastwood

“Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.”
Ray Liotta - Henry Hill

“This accidental meeting... it's like a Hitchcock movie you know where you're thrown into a rubber bag and put in the trunk of a car, you find people. You find them. Something, is it karma?”
Christopher Guest - Corky St. Clair