Movie Quotes

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

May the Force be with you.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

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.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.

When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

The man is clear in his mind, but his soul is mad.

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.