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Cinema |
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Quotations
 | She has slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress (on rival Joan Crawfor) 12 likes |
 | With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. — Bob Hope, 1903-2003, American comedian 5 likes |
 | The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this: a movie star will say, “How can I change the script to suit me?” and a movie actor will say. “How can I change me to suit the script?” — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 5 likes |
 | Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
| There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen. — Bette Davis, 1908-1989, American actress 4 likes |
 | Cinema is canned theater. — Louis Jouvet, 1887-1951, French actor 4 likes |
| First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 4 likes |
 | Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one’s back on American cinema — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 3 likes |
| I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 3 likes |
 | Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. — Eric Johnston, 1896-1963, American businessman 3 likes |
 | African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 3 likes |
| It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 3 likes |
| The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child "innocence". The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
| All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
| Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
| I would never see a good movie for the first time on television. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
| American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
| Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 2 likes |
| Morocco... Looks better in films. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 2 likes |
 | Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either. |
 | The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics. The whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. |
| A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. |
 | Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. |
| Non-literate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Who would deny that sound cinema has made us discover silence? Silence is the most beautiful conquest of speaking. |
| All you owe the public is a good performance. |
| I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. |
| A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. |
Funny Quotes
 | Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
 | Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood. |
Stupid Quotes
 | Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? — Harry Warner, 1881-1958, American film producer (in 1927) 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | In '33, Goebbels asked Lang to head the German film industry. That very night, Lang left Germany. — from the film Contempt (1963) 4 likes |
| The cinema substitutes for our gaze at a world more in harmony with our desires. “Contempt” is a story of that world. — from the film Contempt (1963) 3 likes |
