Movie quotes

“If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.”
Sam Raimi

“This picture is going to be one of the biggest white elephants of all time [talking about 'Gone With the Wind'].”

Victor Fleming

“Obstacles make a better picture.”
Victor Fleming

“One thing we wanted to do when we finished it was to dedicate it to our fathers. To all fathers which I thought would have been a nice idea.”

Roger Allers

“I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think.”
Guy Ritchie

“I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.”
Peyton Reed

“Shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do.”
Jonathan Demme

“Doomsday and Armageddon just had a baby and it... is... ugly!”
Jane Lynch - Calhoun

- Alan Swann: Now, all we have to do is get from here - to there.
- Benjy Stone: It won't work!
- Alan Swann: It worked perfectly well in "A Slight Case of Divorce"!
- Benjy Stone: That was a movie! This is real life!
- Alan Swann: What is the difference?

Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.”
Terrence Malick

“I prefer fact to fiction.”
Richard Attenborough

“Every film takes on a life of its own, and it's influenced by you, and it's influenced by all the other players that are involved with it as well.”
Kevin Reynolds

“Every picture I've worked on has had its own unique set of problems.”
Kevin Reynolds

“Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.”
Peter Farrelly

“The hardest thing in the world about making a movie is to satisfactorily end it.”
Bobby Farrelly

“I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.”
Ted Kotcheff

“I remember just being absolutely slack-jawed, stunned, knocked over, goggle-eyed with astonishment. They applauded like they were at a live Broadway show and I had never seen anything like that in my life.”

Kirk Wise

“Movies are human drama.”
Antoine Fuqua

“Most of the time I only watch European movies, independent movies, or screen them privately.”
Antoine Fuqua

“The biggest challenge is to make it real, not to make it saccharine.”

Jeremy Leven

“All my novels, a lot of my screenplays, they all deal with love and faith and religion a lot.”
Jeremy Leven

“There’s always going to be an element of mystery to Hitchcock; it’s very hard to explain it rationally.”
Julian Jarrold On Alfred Hitchcock

“I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.”
Richard Linklater

“Cinema must reflect the temper of the times. We must choose material not only on the basis of whether we feel deeply, but on whether or not anyone's bloody well going to see it.”
Richard Lester

“Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.”
Richard Lester