Subject: Entertainment » Film

I am a typed director; if I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Inviting her to review one of your pictures is like inviting the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

(1894 – 1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright & novelist

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

No, no… Jimmy Stewart for governor… Ronald Reagan for his best friend.

(1892 – 1978) Canadian-American film producer (Warner Brothers)

The intensity of movie publicity is in inverse ratio to the quality of the movie.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Blondes make the best victims; they're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

The trouble with this business is that the stars keep ninety per cent of my money.

(1906 – 1998) Russian-born English film producer & media mogul

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

This might have been good for a picture… except it has too many characters in it.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and on airplanes, because no one can leave.

(1936 – 2018) American actor

Popcorn is the last area of the movie business where good taste is still a concern.

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer

Gandhi was everything the voting members of the Academy would like to be: moral, tan and thin.

(1932 – ) American journalist & film critic

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I got tired of calling the movies to listen to what is playing so I bought the album.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

I saw a poster for Mission Impossible III the other day. I thought: It’s not impossible if he’s already done it twice.

(1980 – ) English comedian & novelist

Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.

movie critic

An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing; but if he enters through a window, you've got a situation.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer