Movie quotes

“My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.”
Wong Kar-wai

“Heritage is something martial-arts films don't often talk about.”
Wong Kar-wai

“Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.”
Wes Anderson

“You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.”
Robert Wise

“Preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work.”
Robert Wise

“When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.”
Darren Aronofsky

“I don't like films with a message at the end telling an audience, this is what you have to think. It's not up to me to have to decide for the audience.”
Yann Samuell

“In a way, my film is a how-to about becoming an arms dealer.”
Andrew Niccol

One of the funniest men I ever worked with and didn't understand a thing about the movie ["Charley Varrick"] at all.

Don Siegel On Walter Matthau

“- Oscar Madison: I think I figured out where we are.
- Felix Ungar: Where?
- Oscar Madison: In a Clint Eastwood movie.”

Walter Matthau - Oscar Madison
Jack Lemmon - Felix Ungar

“- Riggan: Fuck you!
- Young Birdman: No, fuck you, you coward. We grossed billions! You're ashamed of that? Billions!
- Riggan: And billions of flies eat shit every day! So what? Does that make it good? I don't know if you noticed, but that was 1992!”
Michael Keaton - Riggan
Benjamin Kanes - Young Birdman

“- Ivan Checkov: I am Ivan Checkov, and you will be closing now.
- Murphy: Checkov? Well, this here's McCoy. We find a Spock, we got us an away team.”

Scott Griffith - Ivan Checkov
Norman Reedus - Murphy MacManus

“- Dave: Movies cost millions of dollars to make.
- Bowfinger: That's after gross net deduction profit percentage deferment ten percent of the nut. Cash, every movie cost $2,184.”
Jamie Kennedy - Dave
Steve Martin - Bowfinger

“Come on I'm sick of these stupid educational films man! Where are the ones with the naked women?”

Frank Welker - Munchie

“I've done a lot more effect-driven films than you have and I think I can spot...
[picks up Damien's severed head]
... a prop head when I see one!
[people around him gag]
It's corn syrup, guys! Corn syrup and latex.
[digs his fingers inside the head and gets a taste; gets disgusted look on his face]
Warm... blood-flavored corn syrup.”
Ben Stiller - Tugg Speedman - Hot LZ

“These days, when someone smokes in the movies, they're either a psychopath or a European.”
Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“As of next Monday, no parent will be permitted to see an R-rated movie, unless accompanied by a kid.”
Matthew McCurley - Winchell

- Randal: All right, look, there's only one "Return", okay, and it ain't "of the King", it's "of the Jedi".
- Hobbit Lover: Oh, Star Wars geek.
Jeff Anderson - Randal
Kevin Weisman - Hobbit Lover

“- Amy Szalinski: I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto.
- Nick Szalinski: I don't think we're in the food chain anymore, Dorothy.”
Amy O'Neill - Amy Szalinski
Robert Oliveri - Nick Szalinski

“I think directing a movie is the best job ever created, but Marilyn has cured me of ever wanting to do it again.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier

“It takes a miracle to get into pictures, and now these two jokers wanna get out.”

Jeff Bergman - Bugs Bunny

- Bo Catlett: You broke into my house, and I have a witness to it.
- Chili Palmer: What?
- Bo Catlett: Only this time it ain't no John Wayne and Dean Martin shooting bad guys in "El Dorado".
- Chili Palmer: That was "Rio Bravo". Robert Mitchum played the drunk in "El Dorado". Dean Martin played the drunk in "Rio Bravo". Basically, it was the... (continue)(continue reading)

Delroy Lindo - Bo Catlett
John Travolta - Chili Palmer

Ed hates anything that keeps him from going to the movies every night. I guess I'm what's called a "Garbo widow".
Louise Closser Hale - Hattie Loomis

“- Waitress: What are you writing?
- JJ Lask: A book.
- Waitress: Ah, a writer.
- JJ Lask: This is actually going to be made into a movie.
- Waitress: The movie is never as good as the book.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask
Judy Del Giudice - Waitress

“We came here to get a moving picture, and we've found something worth more than all the movies in the world!”

Robert Armstrong - Carl Denham