Subject: Entertainment » Film (Page 2)

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

(1879 – 1974) film producer

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

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

British writer, cartoonist, poet & performer

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny… yet no French sex comedies are funny.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons

He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

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

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

It’s funny how psychos are always so much scarier when they’re pretty girls.

(1954 – ) British writer & critic

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

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

We are paid to have dirty minds.

(1903 – 1986) American film censor

Good producers are as rare as rocking horse doo-doo.

(1948 – ) English film director

Boxing is a great exercise… as long as you can yell 'cut' whenever you want to.

(1946 – ) American actor

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

The only part I believed was at the end of the movie when she wouldn't move her ass over and let him on the raft with her.

(1960 – ) American stand-up comedian & writer

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

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

(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

I watched the directors’ cut of a porn film… at the end he actually fixes the washing machine.