Movie quotes

“When ten years later I saw the film myself, it was like seeing a corpse in a graveyard.”

Erich von Stroheim

“The toughest three pictures I ever made.”

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz

“They are doing things on the screen now that I wouldn't do in bed. If I could.”

Bob Hope

“I've seen 'A Night at the Opera' seventeen times ... I just couldn't get over that love story between Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle.”
Mike Nichols

“When Jack Warner hired him to write scripts at the studio, Mizner came into Warner's office with the Los Angeles telephone book, dropped it on his desk and said, 'This might have been good for a picture — except it has too many characters in it.”
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz On Wilson Mizner

“You can't stick to the written word when a scene is transformed unpredictably just by the look of a particular actor or the way the setting fits around the camera.”
John Boorman

“On a film set the only person less important than the director is a talent agent.”
John Cassavetes

“It's a picture of yourself up there and if they don't like it, they don't like you.”

Martin Scorsese

“What some people would call third-rate movies. I don't believe they're third-rate movies.”
Martin Scorsese

“I can't win working with Welles. If the picture's a hit he will get the credit. If it's a flop I'll be blamed.”
Carole Lombard On Orson Welles

“Jane has survived more bad movies than any actress should be able to in a lifetime.”
Henry Fonda On Jane Seymour Fonda

“Ordeal by comment card, known otherwise as death by a thousand cuts.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.”
Charlton Heston

“I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies — as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.”
Humphrey Bogart

“The monster was the best friend I ever had.”

Boris Karloff

“- Lisa: How could you have sex with all of those women?
- Joe Young: I didn't it was a stunt cock.
- Lisa: A stunt cock? So you aren't touching all of those women's breasts?
- Joe Young: No they're all just special effects.”
Robyn Lynne Raab - Lisa
Trey Parker - Joe Young

“It is in the interest of producers to maintain a certain moral standard since, if they don't do this, the immoral films won't sell.”
Jean Renoir

“I don't like films with a 'message' and I think that 'entertainment' is the necessary element. You can get across a message and entertain the public at the same time and that's what is really important. ”
Blake Edwards

“I know audiences feed on crap, but I cannot believe we are so lacking that we cannot dish it up to them with some trace of originality.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“Only the first picture of a cycle really succeeds. All the imitators dwindle.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“The movies are the greatest political fact in the world today.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“The best films are best because of nobody but the director.”
Roman Polanski

“We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!”
Eddie Murphy - Kit Ramsey

“There's always been one boss on a picture, the director. I haven't always agreed with him, but I've paid attention.”
John Wayne

“- Bettina Barnes: Another lousy sci-fi flick. Berdine, I just can't identify with the Rat-Faced Girl from Mars.
- Berdine: Is it really that bad?
- Bettina Barnes: Honey, Lassie could fart out a better script.”
Kimberley Davies - Bettina Barnes
Danni Wheeler - Berdine