Quotes about Cinema

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Aldous Huxley absolutely detested mass culture and popular entertainment, and many of his toughest critical essays, as well as several intense passages in his fiction, consist of sneers and jeers at the cheapness of the cinematic ethic and the vulgarity of commercial music.

As the new alcohol tumbled into his stomach and warmed him, the isolated pictures began slowly to form a cinema reel of the day before.

[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

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.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.