George Bernard Shaw on movies

Some men see things as they are and say why⁠—I dream things that never were and say why not.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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

I wrote a novel this year called Shop Girl, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, “If you think you’re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending…that’s going to cost you.”

Steve Martinborn 1945

You know what your problem is? It’s that you haven’t seen enough movies⁠—all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Steve Martinborn 1945