Movie quotes

“I especially like doing historical work, playing someone who has actually lived, because then I get to do the research.”
Robert John Burke

“The higher the budget the more pressure.”
Tomas Arana

“You should try to show the most horrible characters as human as possible, to remind people that the true evil people in world history are not that far away that you can’t notice it.”
Tomas Arana

“Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.”
Don Johnson

“How can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?”
Mathieu Kassovitz

“- Staff Sergeant William James: The DVD you sold me was crap.
- Beckham: You crazy, man. That's impossible. It's Hollywood special effects.
- Staff Sergeant William James: No. It was shaky. It was out of focus, buddy.
- Beckham: What, you want donkey porn?
- Staff Sergeant William James: It's crap.
- Beckham: Girls on dog? Gay sex, man? Anything...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeremy Renner - Staff Sergeant William James
Christopher Sayegh - Beckham

“Making movies is a form of narcissism.”
Kirk Douglas

“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

“I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“- Dr. Fromberg: What was that film you were watching?
- Michael: Death, Death, Death...
- Dr. Fromberg: Death, Death, Death.
- Michael: ...Part 2.
- Dr. Fromberg: Oh, lord! Don't you see? Violence is not senseless entertainment!”
David Hemblen - Dr. Fromberg
Edward Furlong - Michael

“I would say life is pretty pointless, wouldn't you, without the movies?”
Vincent Gallo - Johnny

- Jeff Portnoy - Hot LZ: So, what's the plan, man? You gonna talk Vietnamese to those dudes?
- Kirk Lazarus: No, no. Mandarin Chinese. What I can tell, it's what they're speaking down there.
- Jeff Portnoy - Hot LZ: How the hell do you know Chinese?
- Kirk Lazarus: "Land of Silk and Money" with Gong Li. Second Globe, third Oscar. I prepped for... (continue)(continue reading)
Jack Black - Jeff Portnoy - Hot LZ
Robert Downey Jr. - Kirk Lazarus

“Tell a person that you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly. Mention something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody is a theology scholar.”
Alan Rickman - Metatron

“You people. If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?”
Alan Rickman - Metatron

“- Senator Jummy Simpson: I've seen that girl somewhere before.
- Liza Prescott: She's a very particular friend of the director who's making this picture. He sticks her in every scene he can.”

Walter Kingsford - Senator Jummy Simpson
Billie Burke - Liza Prescott

“I live my life like a French movie.”
Jim True-Frost - David Bailey

“- Truman Burbank: Was nothing real?
- Christof: You were real. That's what made you so good to watch...”
Jim Carrey - Truman Burbank
Ed Harris - Christof

“- Frank King: So, you're saying that you want to give me a script and I'll pay you and you don't want your name on it?
- Dalton Trumbo: No, you don't want my name on it.
- Frank King: Okay then.”
John Goodman - Frank King
Bryan Cranston - Dalton Trumbo

“It'll be just like in the movies. Pretending to be somebody else.”
Naomi Watts - Betty

“- Lucy: You wanna take me to a kung fu movie?
- Clarence Worley: Three kung fu movies.”
Anna Levine - Lucy
Christian Slater - Clarence Worley

- Nick Chapman: What is it?
- Emmet Sumner: It's this stupid movie. It's called "Coffins from Hell".
- Nick Chapman: What is it about?
- Emmet Sumner: Coffins from hell.
Kevin Bacon - Nick Chapman
Michael McKean - Emmet Sumner

- Peggy: MGM wants you to do the Ian Fleming book "Casino Royale" with Cary Grant. Definitely your style.
- Alfred Hitchcock: Doesn't she know I just made that movie? It was called "North by Northwest". And "style", my dear, is mere self-plagiarism.
Toni Collette - Peggy
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock

“- Nancy: I can't believe they're all dead!
- Vicki Summers: They were never alive! They weren't real. Neither are you because this is just a movie!”
Malin Akerman - Nancy
Nina Dobrev - Vicki Summers

“Atlanta' lost more money than any movie in the history of movies. Or something like that. Right, daddy?”
Drew Barrymore - Casey Brodsky

“Are you watching this movie? Not too funny. 'Couse at 36,000 feet, you can't just up and walk out of the theater, can you?”

Peter Sarsgaard - Carson