Movie quotes

“I started movies in 1980. I don't think anything's changed for the best. When it comes down to certain technologies and certain things that have afforded more people to maybe have a shot at making a movie or something like that, that's good. But you also end up with 50,000 times the amount of bad movies, because now anybody can make a bad movie.”
William Forsythe

“I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.”
Tessa Thompson

“- Bridget: I thought I'd die laughing. He was so hungry, he wanted to eat his shoes.
- Carol: No?
- Bridget: He pretended the laces were spaghetti.”

Helen Fraser - Bridget
Catherine Deneuve - Carol

“Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.”
Michael Eklund

“They'll never make a movie about girls like us, and you know why? Because it would be so sad that they'd have to sprinkle Prozac on the popcorn or people would kill themselves.”
Jennifer Saunders - Natalie's Mom

“You know, when you watch our movies, nobody else in the stories knows us, and we don't know anybody either. It was just the two of us. All we had was each other.”

Steve Coogan - Stan

“- Lui: What's the film you're in?
- Elle: A film about peace. What else would we be making in Hiroshima?”
Eiji Okada - Lui
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“- Wade Wilson: Isn't that how it always works? Like in Star Wars, men are destined to become their father? And have consensual sex with their sister?
- Vanessa: I think you missed big, big chunks of that movie.
- Wade Wilson: No, I'm pretty sure Luke nailed her.
- Vanessa: Baby, that's Empire.”
Ryan Reynolds - Wade Wilson
Morena Baccarin - Vanessa

“Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.”
Mahershala Ali

“I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman'.”
Angie Dickinson

“There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.”
Anna Paquin

“The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.”
Anna Paquin

I loved "Chasing Amy". I hated the fact that I wasn't in it. It's a love/hate thing.
Jeff Anderson

“There are a lot of things I would have done differently, but Scully wouldn't have been one of them.”
Gillian Anderson

“I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man. It's a form of communication and it's gonna reach you in a way of growth - most of the time.”
Michelle Rodriguez

“All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.”
Robert Bernard Altman

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”
Robert Bernard Altman

“What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.”
Robert Bernard Altman

“Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film or independent film, is the story being well told? Is it interesting? Is the character interesting? And is there something about the character that may stretch me?”
Joan Allen

“I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.”
Christopher Hampton

“I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.”
Wagner Moura

“Locations are characters in my movies. The city is capable of portraying a mood a scene requires.”
Sidney Lumet

“Anything you can do with film, I can do with HD.”

Sidney Lumet

“- Andre Baptiste Junior: Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?
- Yuri Orlov: Part one, two, or three?
- Andre Baptiste Junior: I've only seen part one.”
Sammi Rotibi - Andre Baptiste Junior
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

- Heather: It's just like Hamlet said, "to thine own self be true".
- Cher: Hamlet didn't say that.
- Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
- Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.
Susan Mohun - Heather
Alicia Silverstone - Cher