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

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

(1932 – 2011) British-American actress

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

(1881 – 1958) American studio executive (Warner Brothers)

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

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I know what the public want because I am one of them.

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

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn… then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

(1889 – 1977) English comedian, actor & film director

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

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

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

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

I don't know if this is a matter for the costume department or the hairdresser.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

If you were forced to read the book in high school, you’ll probably hate the movie too.

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

(1936 – 2018) American actor

I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal; and really that’s such a small part of it.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

There's no thief like a bad movie.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

[Caddyshack] was a six-million-dollar scholarship to film school.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way any more… they leave it on the dresser.

(1934 – ) American actress, dancer, activist & author

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

(1955 – ) English actor