Movies Quotes

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

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.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.