Movies - Quotes and Proverbs

Perhaps the book was better. But you may enjoy this collection of proverbs and quotes about movies and film making, and some quotes out of movies.

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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Roger Ebert

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Frank Capra

Go ahead, make my day.

(unknown author)
Source: Film: Sudden Impact

Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later a movie, too
And then home

Lou Reed
Source: Perfect Day Lyrics (Transformer Album)

Mama says, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'

(unknown author)
Source: Film: Forrest Gump, 1994

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

(unknown author)

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.

S.E. Hinton

My ideal role would be a baddie in a James Bond film. I think the wheelchair and the computer voice would fit the part.

Stephen Hawking

Never judge the book by its movie.

J.W. Eagan

Never say never again.

Source: Title of a James Bond film starring Sean Connery.

The book was better.

(unknown author)
Often said after seeing a movie.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Peter Jackson

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

George Lucas

There are no small parts, only small actors.