Quotes about movies
117 quotes from 76 people
We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling1924–1975Rod Serling Vogue, (1 April, 1957).
Terry Gilliamborn 1940About Hollywood. As quoted in the New York Times article Terry Gilliam’s Feel-Good Endings (14 August 2005)As an actor, I’m thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
Charlton Heston1923–2008Video farewell (2002)The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907), PrefaceApplause we crave, from scorn we take defence
But have no armour ‘gainst indifference.
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Prologue (1939) to Oliver Goldsmith’s The Good Natur’d Man (1768).She left me because of my many faults; I left her because I couldn’t talk movies with her.
Jean-Luc Godard1930–2022On his first wife Anna Karina, as quoted in “An Exile in Paradise” by Richard Brody, The New Yorker (20 November 2000)The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
Arthur Miller1915–2005The New York Times (May 9, 1984)
Werner Herzogborn 1942Herzog on Herzog (2002)
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980Newsweek (11 June 1956).
Roger Ebert1942–2013The Great Movies Essay Collections, Vol. II (2005), p. 94
John Cleeseborn 1939On Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)- Werner Herzogborn 1942Minnesota declaration (1999)
- Werner Herzogborn 1942Herzog on Herzog (2002), Said while making Fitzcarraldo
Marlon Brando1924–2004Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994) p. 143