Steve Martin on movies

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.

Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers

The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

George Burns1896–1996

• Acting

What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I’ll take that chance! Violent films don’t turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that’s another matter altogether.

Quentin Tarantinoborn 1963