Quotes on Movie

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

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

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

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

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

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.