"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
Stanley Kubrick
"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."
Jean Cocteau
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
Orson Welles
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Alfred Hitchcock
"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."
Jean-Luc Godard
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."
Samuel Goldwyn
"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."
Mary Pickford
"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
Martin Scorsese
"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."
Jean-Luc Godard
"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."
Pauline Kael
"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."
Federico Fellini
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
"Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'"
Sandra Bullock
"Everything makes me nervous - except making films."
Elizabeth Taylor
"Film lovers are sick people."
Francois Truffaut
"Film spectators are quiet vampires."
Jim Morrison
"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."
Samuel Goldwyn
"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."
Bette Davis
"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie."
Jean-Luc Godard
"I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order."
Jean-Luc Godard
"I never enjoyed working in a film."
Marlene Dietrich
"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."
Oskar Werner
"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
Alfred Hitchcock
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
Alfred Hitchcock
"It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films."
Boris Karloff
