So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
- Christina Aguilera
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Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
- Sandra Bullock
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
- Jean Cocteau
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Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner.
- Alex Cox
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I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
- Bette Davis
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
- Marlene Dietrich
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
- Walt Disney
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This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
- Clint Eastwood
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Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
- Roger Ebert
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Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
- Roger Ebert
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
- Federico Fellini
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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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
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I like a film to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock
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A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
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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
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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
- Alfred Hitchcock
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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
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It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
- Boris Karloff
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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
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The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
- George Lucas
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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 Martin
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
- Jim Morrison
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The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
- Paul Newman
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Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
- Mary Pickford
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Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
- Dennis Quaid
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers
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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
- Mary Schmich
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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
- Mary Schmich
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Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
- Martin Scorsese
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
- Elizabeth Taylor
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Film lovers are sick people.
- Francois Truffaut
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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
- Andy Warhol
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- Orson Welles
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
- Oskar Werner
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Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
- Billy Wilder
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