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| Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. ~ Roman Polanski |
| Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing. ~ Ralph Richardson |
| Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ~ Alfred Hitchcock |
| Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~ John LeCarre |
| The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ~ Alfred Hitchcock |
| A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock |
| A sequel is an admission that you’ve been reduced to imitating yourself. ~ Don Marquis |
| Never judge a book by its movie. ~ J.W. Eagan |
| I’ve spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ~ Wilson Mizner |
| Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~ Jessamyn West |
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| Most horror movies are certainly that. ~ Brendan Francis |
| You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I’m sure I would have played his mother. That’s the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. ~ Lillian Gish |
| What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ~ Agnes Repplier |
| What I’ve learned is that life is too short and movies are too long. ~ Denis Leary |
| There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. ~ Goldie Hawn |
| Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. ~ River Phoenix |
| Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? ~ Samuel Goldwyn |
| The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won’t walk backwards. A horror fan won’t walk backwards because he knows he’ll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won’t walk backwards because he knows he’ll step on the cat. ~ Aaron Allston |
| It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around. ~ Mary Pickford |
| A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good. ~ T.S. Eliot, |
| Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| [M]ovie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. ~ John Boorman, |
| There’s no thief like a bad movie. ~ Sam Ewing |
| If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ~ Norman McLaren |